GS Group is taking the lead in building a “win-win AI ecosystem” by opening up the artificial intelligence (AI) technology assets it has accumulated to external partners. As artificial intelligence transformation (AX) emerges as a survival imperative for companies, going beyond digital transformation (DX), the group aims to enhance the overall competitiveness of national industries and realize the value of shared growth by sharing its field-oriented experience and know-how.

GS Group is providing its safety management AI agent “AIR” free of charge to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This service is a solution that uses AI to analyze complex risk assessments at industrial worksites, and currently more than 130 SME workplaces are using AIR.

When users enter the task name and a brief description, AIR’s generative AI derives the work process and automatically generates potential risk factors, risk levels, and preventive measures. It supports SME worksites that lack safety management personnel and expertise and face difficulties in adopting AX, enabling them to implement systematic safety management.

AIR originated from the “3rd GS Group Hackathon” held in 2024. At that time, five practitioners in safety and mechanical fields at GS Power proposed the idea, and they developed AIR themselves without any coding process by using “MISO,” GS Group’s proprietary AX platform. MISO provides an environment in which on-site practitioners without coding knowledge can implement web pages or work tools simply by entering ideas in a conversational manner. It is designed to allow users to safely update company data and freely apply AI models optimized for field operations.

Subsequently, GS Power linked AIR with its internal systems and advanced it based on actual on-site data. As a result, the time required for risk assessment work—which had previously been performed manually by checking each item against the Industrial Safety and Health Act and related manuals—was reduced to one-tenth of the previous level. Most importantly, consistent assessment quality is maintained regardless of the person in charge or their level of experience, and an environment has been created in which more time can be devoted to actual safety inspections and management activities instead of repetitive documentation work.

These achievements have also been recognized externally. In January, GS Power was selected as an “Exemplary Case of Spreading Process Safety Management (PSM) Safety Culture” and received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award. This recognition reflects not only the company’s success in simultaneously improving the efficiency and quality of safety management through AI, but also its efforts to extend these benefits to external worksites.

A GS Group representative said, “AIR is an AI agent created directly by on-site employees who recognized the need for it, making it a case of AX that prioritizes the field over technology,” adding, “Through the donation of AIR, we hope SMEs can experience the benefits of AI-based safety management and that it will provide tangible help in narrowing the safety gap at industrial worksites.”

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