Make the observation useful before you make it polished.

Safety incident triage is the first review of an observation: what happened, what may need attention, and who owns the next step. SafetyOps Copilot helps structure that review and preserves the reasoning beside the record.

Capture enough context to act.

Describe the event or near miss, the location, conditions and known outcome. Separate observations from assumptions. Keep employee names, medical details and other sensitive information in your official incident system.

Read the assessment as a draft.

The service uses a locally available DistilBERT model for severity. If the model cannot load or inference fails, it uses a rule-based baseline. Category matching is rule-based in both cases. The assessment states the inference source; it does not present a rule confidence as a calibrated model probability.

Understand the priority arithmetic.

Low, medium and high severity contribute 25, 55 and 85 points respectively. Each prior observation of the same category in your workspace during the preceding seven days adds three points, capped at 15. The resulting priority is a sorting aid, not the probability of an accident.

Explicit words indicating potentially serious harm impose a severity floor. This lexical check can misunderstand negation and context, and a model can miss hazards that are not stated clearly. A low score never establishes that an area is safe.

What the model evidence does and does not show.

The checked-in evaluation uses 1,605 held-out MSHA mining accident narratives. DistilBERT achieved macro-F1 0.7799 against the rule baseline's 0.3357. Labels were derived from reported injury outcomes. These historical mining-domain results do not establish prospective risk prediction, legal compliance or generalization to every workplace.

Read the complete model card and label definitions.

Turn the review into follow-through.

Select the observation, name a corrective action, assign an owner and set a due date. Review the relevant response runbook with your site's responsible person. Actions move from open to in progress to closed; closure requires a written evidence note and is timestamped.

Use your site's emergency procedures for immediate danger. The application does not monitor emergencies or certify a workplace as safe.