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SEE THE SIGNALS: Using AI to spot leading indicators of environmental incidents

A white paper by: Leith,D., Nicholas,P., Gowdar,P.N. and Ande,K.
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The Challenge

Organisations in high-risk sectors such as water supply and wastewater management handle large volumes of structured and unstructuredincident-related data. This includes everything from customer reports and internal observations to near misses and full incident investigations.

Despite the volume of information, many organisations struggle to bring these data sources together and extract meaningful insights. Challenges include inconsistent or unstructured data, disconnected systems, lack of analysis tools, and poor data quality.
The inability to draw insights from this information limits the ability to understand risk and act preventively.

This study outlines development using the COMET’s AI and data analytics solution, COMET Signals to ingest large data sources to learn and train models which turn data into actionable intelligence.
The Goal
Enable better decision-making using existing incident and observation data

Identify systemic issues, hotspots, and trends from unstructured text

Support smarter capital investment and preventive action through improved intelligence

Turn incident data into predictive insight using AI models
The Solution
Ingest large datasets, including incident reports, near misses, and observations

Train AI models to extract insights such as key topics, hazards, root causes, and severity

Correlate findings with event classifications like project, location, or contractor to visualise trends and track seasonal patterns

Use severity to support prioritisation and flag high-risk areas
The Result
Structured AI-powered analysis of free-text incident data

Improved visibility into recurring themes, hazards, and causes across the organisation

Ability to analyse thousands of records for trends that may not be visible to the human eye

Enhanced capacity to plan interventions, target investment, and reduce future incidents
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Explore real-world experiences from our satisfied customers who have harnessed the power of COMET. From streamlined processes to enhanced safety, their stories highlight the impact of our solution.

Helped us reduce first aid cases by 29%

"When we adopted COMET, we were looking for a root cause analysis tool that would help us identify underlying causes before they lead to incidents. Since adopting the tool, COMET has helped us reduce first aid cases by 29% in the last year, contributing to Corning’s best-ever safety record in 2022.On top of this, the support from the COMET team cannot be underestimated – they are always on-hand to resolve any issues in a timely and efficient manner. I would highly recommend COMET and the STC INSISO team to anyone looking for an audit and investigation tool."

Guillermo Castillo, Global EHS Leader – OCS Division at Corning Inc.
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COMET helped us understand the systemic root causes

"The main value to LR of adopting COMET is the newfound organisational leadership education and enlightenment as to the reasons behind incident types, particularly  those which hurt us most in terms of frequency. A recent example was repeat microsleep incidents affecting our surveyors. COMET helped us understand the systemic root causes and gave the Board sufficient confidence to invest over £2 million in a preventive action programme which is already bearing fruit in terms of this type of incident reduction."

James Pomeroy,
Group Director HSEQ at Lloyds Register
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We’re maximising its value across the business

"Viridor is a relatively recent adopter of the COMET RootApp tool but is already beginning to really reap the rewards of a first class investigation system.
We’re maximising its value across the business through consistency of approach and ensuring we really do get to the root cause of our incidents so we can set the right actions to prevent recurrence.

The COMET team has been hugely helpful and supportive in getting this new process implemented."

Richard Robinson,
Head of SHQS at Viridor
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Probably the best root cause analysis process and toolkit

"Probably the best root cause analysis process and toolkit. But beyond enabling us to adequately identify root causes, COMET also allows us to track trends using the root cause codes to help address systemic opportunities in our management system."

Bertrand Piredda, Director of HSES Cummins Power Systems
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Feels more like a partnership

"Borr Drilling adopted COMET across the business in 2017/2018 and since then our relationship and trust with the STC INSISO COMET team has grown immensely.

Any issues are quickly resolved or addressed and a feature of the relationship I enjoy most is that it feels more like a partnership than that of a more traditional vendor/client arrangement."

Thomas Sunde, QHSE Director at Borr Drilling
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Positive and encouraging feedback

"STC INSISO recently delivered the 3-day COMET practitioner course to GSK R&D (UK) engineering and safety professionals.

The COMET team created a bespoke course that was well received by GSK R&D with lots of positive and encouraging feedback."

Ray Duffy, EHS Manager - Projects & Engineering at GSK
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