OSH-IA

OSH-AI is a tool for small business owners that can make OSHA compliance as easy as a conversation.

Comment 1

Inspiration

Running a small business is hard. There are 33.2M small business owners and 50% with a physical location and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) compliance is required for all businesses to keep employees safe. The problem is that small business owners, especially first-time or new owners, don’t know what they don’t know and reading hundreds of pages of OSHA regulations and guidelines is a waste of time. This tool is meant to help make their jobs easier and OSHA compliance as simple as a conversation.

How we built it

We used LangChain for a relevant subset of the law, the OpenAI GPT-4 API, and a shared Google Colab notebook to collaboratively develop the scripts and backend. We also used GPT-4 heavily to assist with evaluating and trying out various front-end options. For the front end we used streamlit and explored a wide variety of tools.

Challenges we ran into

  • OSHA regulation is very long so we cut the scope and size of corpus to show the proof of concept in our demo
  • No one on the team has a front end background so there was a lot of education with GPT-4 to understand tooling and ramp up quickly
  • One teammate is a new father and schedule didn’t work for the second day of the hackathon

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • It’s possible to build a legal tool in 24 hours
  • Langchain and data ingestion could be done relatively quickly to allow for playing of prompt engineering
  • Engineering can learn frontend relatively quickly with the help of Chat-GPT and GPT-4

What we learned

  • It’s best to do an inventory of teammate skills and schedules to make sure we are fully covered on the project’s needs
  • It’s helpful to setup project hygeine ahead of time. Everyone has access to tooling (e.g., Github, CoLab) so everyone can contribute
  • It’s possible with Langchain to now cite sources of where the AI got their information!
  • Legal regulation is a tough corpus to work with and requires further massaging and chunking to get it in the right state for ingestion

What's next for OSH-AI

We have submitted the entire project to Github under open source license. We hope this serves as a resource for other who can learn from and even use our approach for their own projects and explorations.

Built With

  • colab
  • fastapi
  • gpt-4
  • langchain
  • the-openai-gpt-4-api
Share this project:

Updates