Table of Contents
- Why Use the AI Glossary & Learning Hub?
- AI is Everywhere!
- Establish a Common Reference Point
- Learning About AI is a Journey
- What You’ll Find in the AI Glossary & Learning Hub
- AI Glossary
- Introduction to AI
- AI Industrial Use Cases
- AI and EHS
- AI and EHS Career Pathing
- VelocityEHS AI and EHS Resources
- Suggested Reading Path (Because Starting Is the Hard Part)
- Don’t Get Left Behind! VelocityEHS Can Help.
AI is steadily becoming an essential tool for EHS professionals who are under increasing pressure to improve safety performance, enhance accuracy and efficiency of EHS tasks, and support more data-driven decisions. If you’re curious about AI but feel a little overwhelmed by all the technical jargon, often conflicting information, or half-baked promises of what AI can do for EHS professionals, there’s good news! You’re not alone, and you don’t have to go it alone.
To help folks like you, VelocityEHS has put together our AI Glossary & Learning Hub—a curated, easy to understand, and trusted space for EHS professionals to learn, explore, and level up your AI expertise.
Whether you’re just getting your feet wet or already starting to apply AI tools within your EHS program, our AI Glossary & Learning Hub is a helpful guidepost along the way.
Why Use the AI Glossary & Learning Hub?
AI is Everywhere!
From incident tracking and corrective actions to chemical management, ergonomics, job safety analysis (JSA) and other essential EHS tasks, AI is rapidly reshaping the field of EHS. With so many terms swirling around like machine learning, natural language processing, and “black box” models—it’s easy to lose clarity on what AI does and doesn’t do, especially within the scope of EHS. We’ll help you understand the fundamentals.
Establish a Common Reference Point
When everyone in your team understands and uses the same terminology and concepts, conversations around AI get sharper, trust grows stronger, and adoption happens faster.
Learning About AI is a Journey
You don’t have to absorb everything overnight. The AI Glossary & Learning Hub is designed to grow with you and expand as new knowledge is introduced, offering a semi-structured pathway to guide you from basic AI concepts to uncover advanced insights.
What You’ll Find in the AI Glossary & Learning Hub
Here’s what makes the VelocityEHS AI Glossary & Learning Hub a resource worth bookmarking:
AI Glossary
Clear definitions of fundamental AI/ML terms to help you make sense of the emerging AI lexicon and feel confident talking about AI with fellow stakeholders.
Introduction to AI
Trusted resources to give you a quick overview AI and machine learning, and provide a common reference point to understand AI.
AI Industrial Use Cases
Numerous resources to help illustrate the increasing ways AI is being applied to enhance performance and efficiency across other industrial settings. These resources can help you demonstrate the business case for AI and motivate successful AI adoption.
AI and EHS
EHS-specific use cases of AI and expert thought leadership on the current and future state of AI in EHS. Familiarize yourself with how EHS leaders are currently applying AI in the workplace, and what to expect in terms of the direction of future EHS AI capabilities.
AI and EHS Career Pathing
Curated links to resources and organizations including continuing education programs to help EHS professionals develop their knowledge and expertise in AI. Learn how to position yourself on the leading edge of AI transformation as employers continue to value integration of AI in EHS management.
VelocityEHS AI and EHS Resources
Links to resources from our very own VelocityEHS experts including white papers, checklists, infographics, articles, podcasts and other media to help you learn how VelocityAI and Vēlo can support your EHS program. Learn more about how the AI capabilities of the Accelerate Platform equip you to enhance essential EHS management tasks and drive performance.
Suggested Reading Path (Because Starting Is the Hard Part)
- Begin with the AI Glossary and Introduction to AI sections to get comfortable with the basics.
- Explore general industry and EHS-specific use cases (e.g. how AI is used in PSIF prediction, chemical indexing, or hazard detection).
- Bookmark external research and foundational papers when you want to dig deeper.
- Revisit periodically—the Hub will grow with new topics and perspectives.
Don’t Get Left Behind! VelocityEHS Can Help.
Stay ahead of the AI learning curve and ensure you’re equipped to identify and communicate the value that AI is bringing to the future of EHS. Visit the AI Glossary & Learning Hub today and take the first step toward mastering the language and capitalizing on the opportunities of AI in EHS.
Ready to see how VelocityAI and Vēlo can help you enhance the speed and reach of your EHS program? Request a Demo today and we’ll show you how!