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SIH26165SoftwareSmart Automation

AI/NLP Engine to Detect Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) Precursors in OIL's Unsafe-Act/Unsafe-Condition and Near-Miss Reports

Oil India Limited

Ideas submitted
108 / 500
Deadline
30 September 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Smart Automation

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• Background OIL collects large volumes of UA/UC observations, near-miss and incident reports through its HSSE platform but these are triaged manually after certain time intervals such as monthly, quarterly etc.However, Global best practice (DEKRA Martin & Black 2015; EEI SIF Precursor model; VelocityEHS 2024 PSIF classifier) has established that low-severity incidents do not share the same causes as fatalities — non-fatal US accidents fell 51% over 15 years while fatalities fell only 25.5%.Leading operators therefore separately flag the ~20–25% of reports carrying genuine fatal potential.

Problem Description Build a prototype that ingests OIL's free-text safety reports and automatically a) Classifies each as SIF-potential vs non-SIF-potential b) Tags it to the relevant IOGP Life-Saving Rule (e.g., Energy Isolation, Hot Work,Confined Space, Line of Fire)

c) Surfaces recurring precursor patterns (activity, location, barrier failure) via a dashboard.

Expected Outcome/Solution A working AI/NLP with an interactive dashboard that ranks sites/activities by SIF-precursor density and auto-maps to Life-Saving Rules, enabling HSE to focus interventions where fatal potential is highest.

Relevant Data Availability (if any)

OIL's UA/UC observations, near-miss and incident reports.

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as of 28 Sept
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  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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