General Contractor Offers AI-Powered Safety Tool to Construction Industry

Turner Construction Company is making SafeT Coach, its AI-powered field safety tool, available free of charge to the broader construction industry. The announcement comes during Turner’s 22nd annual Safety Week and company-wide Safety Stand-Down, it’s largest to date, under the theme “All In Together.”

In construction, conditions change frequently, and the traditional safety resources that establish standards — manuals, scheduled training, retrospective reporting — are not always accessible when and where field teams need them most. SafeT Coach was developed to close that gap.

Accessible from any mobile device on the jobsite, SafeT Coach answers plain-language safety questions with responses grounded in Turner’s Environmental Health & Safety standards — not generic internet sources. It can also evaluate uploaded jobsite photos to identify potential hazards, prioritize risk and recommend controls in real time. Based on those hazards, users are provided with coaching prompts to support clear, actionable conversations in the field when and where work is happening.

The tool is designed to support a coaching approach, enabling supervisors and craft professionals to engage in real-time discussions about safer ways to perform work — focused on learning and improvement, not enforcement. Outputs are framed as potential hazards and are designed to support professional judgment.

SafeT Coach emerged from the company’s AI Innovation Challenge and was advanced through a collaborative design sprint and field pilots with more than 80 stakeholders. The tool was further validated through extended jobsite use and independent external review by a risk partner prior to public release.

The tool is already proving its value in the field. Darren Dreas, a superintendent for Turner on a higher education lab, used SafeT Coach to determine whether a vertical shaft qualified as a permit-required confined space. The tool produced a decision flow chart, a start-of-day permit checklist and policy citations — enabling an informed conversation with the trade partner’s safety manager within minutes. “Using SafeT Coach saved hours of research and analysis, helping us to quickly make informed decisions,” Dreas said.

Since its initial pilot, SafeT Coach has logged more than 25,000 interactions across the company’s staff, trade partners and field teams.

To learn more, visit turnerconstruction.com/pages/safet-coach.