Daewoo E&C improves safety with digital training and AI translation
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Daewoo E&C, a construction company in South Korea, began standardizing tablet-based safety education and AI real-time translation across all of its domestic construction sites this month.
The company transitioned safety education from paper records to a digital system. This new “Smart Safety Education” system digitizes worker registration, health checks, and reporting, and links to Daewoo E&C’s existing ‘SMARTy’ safety management system. During testing, the data connection between the two systems proved reliable, exceeding 99 percent accuracy.
Daewoo E&C also deployed AI real-time translators to overcome language barriers with its workforce. These translators convert spoken Korean safety instructions into 16 languages, delivering the information through both screen text and audio. The company tested the translator and found its Korean voice recognition to be 94.6 percent accurate. Daewoo E&C expects these changes to reduce administrative work for managers and ensure workers receive accurate safety information.
The company plans to test and roll out further smart safety technologies, including AI CCTV and smartphone-based location tracking, in the future. South Korean construction sites increasingly rely on foreign workers due to an aging domestic workforce and labor shortages, but language barriers have long been a safety concern.
