Turner shares AI-powered safety tool with broader construction industry

SafeT Coach answers plain-language safety questions with responses grounded in Turner’s Environmental Health & Safety standards, rather than generic internet sources.

The company said the tool can make information on safety available to field teams where access to traditional sources that establish safety standards, such as manuals, scheduled training, and retrospective reporting, is limited.

The tool, available on mobile devices, is designed to support a coaching approach, enabling supervisors and professionals to engage in real-time discussions about safer ways to work, with a focus on learning and improvement rather than enforcement.

Turner made the announcement during its 22nd annual Safety Week.

The company added that 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.

“Nothing we build will ever be as important as the people who build it,” said Steve Spaulding, Turner’s chief environmental, health, and safety officer. “SafeT Coach shortens the distance between uncertainty and action—so when someone in the field has a question, the answer is already in their hands.”