Safety Intelligence Built for Utilities’ Most Critical Operations
Empower electric, gas, and water crews to identify, control, and report hazards — without interrupting the essential work that powers communities.
From substations to service trenches, Field1st connects every safety insight in real time as a unified Safety Operations Platform — protecting crews, preventing outages, and ensuring compliance across every asset and contractor.
The Challenge
Utility operations combine high voltage, pressurized systems, heavy equipment, and public exposure — where a single missed control can lead to catastrophic outcomes.
Supervisors juggle dynamic hazards: energized lines, confined-space entries, over-pressurized gas, and wildfire ignition risks. Yet manual forms, static processes, and disconnected systems create blind spots. Hazards are seen too late, safety data is buried in paperwork, and valuable field insights are lost before they can prevent the next incident.
The Result
Missed early warning signs of serious incidents, lagging compliance evidence, and operational inefficiencies that increase risk while slowing restoration and response times.
The Field1st Approach
Field1st is a unified, mobile-first safety platform designed for the real-world complexity of utility operations. It brings hazard prevention, permit assurance, and compliance documentation together — so safety becomes part of the job flow, not an administrative burden.
Voice1st Field Briefings
Crews complete tailboards, switching orders, or confined-space permits hands-free using voice input. Field1st auto-fills forms, flags missing information, and captures digitally signed crew acknowledgments — creating verified records before work begins. Works offline and syncs automatically once back online — ensuring uninterrupted documentation in remote locations.
HazardAI for Live Risk Detection
Snap a photo or upload site media; Field1st identifies hazards such as missing grounding, improper PPE, vegetation encroachment, or unsafe line proximity — then recommends mitigations aligned to standards such as OSHA 1910.269, NERC FAC-003, and API RP 1173.
AI Safety Agent
Real-time safety intelligence that helps supervisors and managers interpret field data, uncover trends, and guide corrective actions. The AI Safety Agent surfaces insights from near-misses, inspections, and daily work activity — helping teams address recurring issues and emerging risks before they escalate.
Self-Service Forms & Permits
Build and deploy dynamic checklists for switching, pressure control, excavation, or confined-space entry — complete with automated routing, approvals, and escalation workflows.
Pulse insights & dashboards
Balanced safety metrics highlight patterns such as recurring near-misses, inspection findings, corrective-action closure rates, and early warning signs of serious incidents across circuits, divisions, and contractors — turning daily data into organizational learning.
Always utility-ready
Works offline and syncs automatically once back online, can integrate with GIS, OMS, SCADA, and EAM systems.
Weather Widget
Lets crews reference real-time local weather or fire conditions to support decision-making — ensuring risk context is visible without leaving the workflow.
Day in the Life
6:30am
Feature: Voice1st Pre-Job Brief & Permit Assurance
A Transmission and Distribution (T&D) crew meets at a substation for reconductoring work. Using Voice1st, the Supervisor captures the full briefing — job steps, hazards, PPE, and hold-offs. Field1st highlights missing data and provides access to the Weather Widget so crews can review current conditions before starting energized work. Crew sign-offs are executed with a quick digitally captured signature and geo-tagged, eliminating paperwork while strengthening accountability.
9:45am
Feature: Photo-Based Hazard & Corrective Action Workflow
A vegetation inspector photographs a tree limb nearing a 230 kV line. HazardAI flags a potential clearance issue, auto-tags the GPS location, and creates a corrective action routed to the responsible vegetation contractor or supervisor. Progress and closure are tracked in dashboards, ensuring risks are visible, managed, and resolved — not just recorded.
12:15pm
Feature: Near-Miss & Inspection Capture in the Flow of Work
A gas technician logs a near-miss — an over-pressurized regulator — directly in Field1st. The report is linked to the relevant job record and procedure documentation for context. The AI Safety Agent analyzes recent similar events across jobs, highlighting recurring issues and emerging patterns and recommending focus areas for coaching and preventive action on pressure control procedures.
2:30pm
Feature: Offline Confined-Space Inspection & Analytics Sync
In a water vault with no connectivity, an inspector performs atmospheric testing and completes the entry checklist offline. Once back online, all readings sync automatically, updating dashboards that highlight confined-space trends and support targeted risk reviews and training initiatives.
4:30pm
Feature: Pulse Insights, Dashboards & Continuous Learning
At shift’s end, supervisors receive Pulse Insights — an at-a-glance summary of open actions, recurring hazards, and positive observations. Weekly dashboards visualize near-miss trends, inspection outcomes, and checklist completion performance, helping safety leaders act on recurring near-misses, inspection findings, and open corrective actions rather than waiting for incidents to occur.
5:30pm
Feature: Executive Reporting & Assurance Metrics
Executives review balanced dashboards showing SIF precursor trends, wildfire-risk mitigation activities, and permit compliance across divisions.With live assurance evidence and complete digital audit trails, they gain confidence that required controls are documented, reviewed, and traceable — making safety decisions defensible.
Why This Matters in Utilities
Safety embedded in operations
- Voice, images, and AI reduce manual reporting delays and keep work moving safely.
Proactive, not reactive
- Live hazard detection and analytics help identify conditions like clearance issues, pressure anomalies, and recurring near-misses before incidents occur.
Unified across all utility domains
- Electric, gas, and water teams share one consistent safety workflow.
Audit-ready compliance
- Automatic traceability to OSHA 1910.269, API RP 1173, NERC FAC-003, and other company-prioritized industry requirements.
Scalable enterprise solution
- Configurable, secure, and fully integrable with existing systems.
Results / Outcomes
Utilities using Field1st move from compliance tracking to operational safety assurance.
Supervisors gain real-time field visibility, hazards are mitigated faster, and safety leaders see recurring risks and emerging patterns earlier.
The outcome:
- Fewer Serious Incidents
- Faster Restorations
- Stronger Regulatory Compliance
- Measurable Reductions in Administrative Overhead
