AI construction safety reporting by text: EllisDon's AI Safety Assistant and auto-written toolbox talks
EllisDon
What they did with AI
EllisDon, a large general contractor, gave crews on four sites a named AI Safety Assistant from Crewscope with its own phone number and email. Workers text a photo or voice note, the AI logs and classifies it by hazard type, routes it to the right trade by text and tracks it to close-out, with the site team staying in control of what goes on the project record. Crewscope's case study says crews logged about 556 field observations from January to July 2026, 99.5% of them submitted directly by workers, with roughly three positive observations for every problem flagged and most issues closed in under a day. The AI also surfaced a blind spot (electrical hazards were barely reported) and turned positive observations from the site into bespoke toolbox talks, sent by text with a follow-up for a signed attendance list. EllisDon's Doug Van Moorsel, Regional Director of Health, Safety and Environment, is quoted in the case study. This is a vendor-published case study and the figures are Crewscope's; the PDF itself shows both 556 and 566 for the observation count.
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