Energy Chamber to use AI in groundbreaking project

The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago (ECTT) has launched what it describes as “a groundbreaking project”, which see artificial intelligence (AI) being employed to significantly enhance the efficiency of the Safe to Work (STOW) certification process.  

An official statement from the Energy Chamber explains the objective of the project is to reduce the time between the close-out of the audit to a decision on STOW certification. 

“The existing review process involves three separate quality control checks by staff of the Energy Chamber, independent quality control reviews and volunteer staff of major operator companies who sit on the STOW Board,” ECTT reports.  “This quality control and assurance procedure is necessary to ensure the integrity of the STOW assessment process, but it is time-consuming and leads to delays between the completion of an audit and the issuance of certificates.”

“The Energy Chamber anticipates that integrating AI into the audit review process will ensure that audit reports are handled with greater speed and accuracy,” the release stated. 

According to the Chamber, since its inception, the STOW programme has created 2,480 individual assessment reports with at least 334,000 different pieces of evidence being required to assess if companies are meeting the stringent STOW requirements. 

“Reviewing this information has involved thousands of hours of both paid and volunteer time,” the ECTT says, “to ensure that companies are meeting requirements and are able to operate safely within the energy, petrochemical and heavy industrial sectors.” 

“By leveraging advanced AI technologies, the Energy Chamber and the STOW Board will be able to reduce certification times, minimize errors, and enhance the overall experience for our members and other companies applying to be STOW certified,” the release said.

The initiative is partially funded by the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Lab.  It is being executed by the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) through its Shaping the Future of Innovation programme—which is a partnership with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago (GORTT) through the Ministry of Planning and Development, the European Union (EU), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB Labs), with CARIRI as the executing agency.

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