Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
GS to offer self-developed AI safety agent free of charge to SMEs
GS Power Managing Director Kim Seong-min, right, poses with Kim Yun-tae, head of the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s Jungbu Regional Office, after receiving a ministerial award from the labor ministry in Incheon, Wednesday. Courtesy of GS Power
By Lee Gyu-lee
GS Group is offering its self-developed artificial intelligence (AI)-powered safety management agent, AI Risk Assessment (AIR), to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) free of charge.
Through the initiative, the company aims to share its field-driven AI transformation experience and expertise with smaller workplaces that have been slower to adopt AI, in a bid to raise safety standards across industries.
“AIR is an AI agent developed based on real on-site needs identified by field staff themselves,” a GS Group official said. “Through this initiative, we hope SMEs can experience the benefits of AI-driven safety management firsthand and ... meaningfully help close safety gaps across worksites.”
“GS will continue to enhance Korea’s industrial competitiveness and safety standards through its accumulated AX experience and expertise,” the official added.
GS Power, a subsidiary of GS Group, first introduced AIR — an agent that integrates AI into job risk assessments — to improve both efficiency and quality in the process, drawing attention as a model case in industrial safety. The company also provided safety consulting using AIR at sites with weaker safety management capabilities, contributing to the broader spread of a safety-oriented workplace culture.
The company earned a ministerial award from the Ministry of Employment and Labor, recognized as a best-practice case for promoting a safety culture in process safety management.
Developed by GS Power’s on-site employees, AIR analyzes risks associated with tasks performed in industrial settings using AI. When a user enters a task name and brief description, generative AI automatically derives the work process and identifies potential hazards, risk levels and preventive safety measures.
The idea for the system was proposed by five GS Power employees specializing in safety and mechanical engineering during a groupwide hackathon in 2024. The team built the system without writing code, using GS Group’s AX platform, MISO.
Since last August, GS Power has implemented AIR across its internal systems. Risk assessments that previously required manually reviewing health and safety regulations now take about three minutes. The system has also standardized the quality of evaluations — which previously varied depending on individual expertise — while drastically reducing repetitive paperwork. This has allowed staff to devote more time to field inspections and proactive safety measures.
The group also plans to host informational sessions and hands-on training workshops in partnership with the ministry.