Dan Hobbs

CEO

Dan graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Business, Economics and Social Studies in 2017. He subsequently founded Better Examinations, an online exam management, proctoring and eAssessment platform for third level institutes. The company was acquired by TerminalFour in 2019 with a growing portfolio of products. Dan was named in the Sunday Business Post 30 under 30 tech leaders alongside Better Examinations which was named in their top 100 start-ups list. Previously, he’s a winner of the Trinity College & Blackstone LaunchBox Accelerator Program as well as Accenture’s leaders of tomorrow accelerator. Dan was named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2023.

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EHSQ Industry

Transforming Workplace Safety: How AI and Computer Vision Inspire Positive Worker Behaviors

Discover how AI and computer vision tools help promote positive worker behaviors, creating a safer workplace and fostering a proactive safety culture.

November 11, 2024
5 mins
EHSQ Industry

Unlocking Insights into Positive Worker Behaviors with AI & Computer Vision Webinar: Key Takeaways

In our recent webinar, Natalie Abiodun, psychological safety specialist and HSE&C Advisor at BP, shared insights on positive reinforcement in the workplace based on her latest research. Additionally, Taran Hercules, Protex AI’s Head of Client Success, highlighted client successes in using computer vision to track and promote positive behavioral events.

November 4, 2024
12 minutes

Integrating Computer Vision Into Your Existing EHS Tech Stack

Managing workplace safety often involves juggling disconnected systems—incident reporting, compliance software, and analytics. This fragmentation creates inefficiencies, raises risks, and strains safety teams. The solution? Integrate your safety tech stack. Unifying these tools gives clearer oversight, reduces manual work, and enables a more proactive approach to incident prevention...

September 24, 2024
5 mins
EHSQ Industry

Achieve ISO 45004 Accreditation and Enhance Safety Standards with Computer Vision

The new ISO 45004 standard sets the benchmark for occupational health and safety management, focusing on performance evaluation and continual improvement. However, achieving ISO 45004 accreditation can be daunting for many organizations...

August 20, 2024
5 mins
EHSQ Industry

Utilizing AI to Generate Actionable Insights From Unstructured Data

A substantial advantage of generative AI is its ability to unlock previously inaccessible insights from unstructured data. This data has traditionally been difficult to analyze due to its unstructured nature. With the assistance of generative AI, patterns and trends within this data can be identified that were previously hidden. These patterns and trends lead businesses to clear action and next steps.

April 12, 2024
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Health & Safety Data with AI Key Takeaways

Our latest webinar "From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Health & Safety Data with AI" with panelists Sarah Cuscadden & Matt Law delved into the role of artificial intelligence in health and safety data management...

April 12, 2024
5 mins
EHSQ Industry

Using Data to Drive the Design of Health and Safety

Workplace health and safety is at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution, with technology solutions now being readily deployed to close the gap in workplace behaviors, incidents, and injuries. Digitization brings both new ways of completing work and new challenges from a health and safety perspective.

April 11, 2024
5 mins
EHSQ Industry

Matthews International's Journey to AI-Enhanced Safety: Insights from Protex AI's Webinar

In a recent webinar hosted by Protex AI, industry leaders gathered to discuss the practical strategies for implementing cutting-edge AI technology to break through traditional safety barriers. Here are the key takeaways from the discussion:

February 9, 2024
7 mins
EHSQ Industry

Near Miss Reporting's Role in ESG Success

Safety and health managers dream of working in businesses with mature safety cultures. They may not know it but most investors dream of holding stakes in those same businesses....

December 13, 2023
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

CSRD-Ready: Embracing the Tech Evolution in Reporting

Amidst this evolution, health and safety reporting is taking center stage, and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is steering the narrative.

December 18, 2023
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

Safety AI's Role in ESG Reporting Webinar Key Takeaways

Missed our recent webinar? Take a look at our key takeaways blog below.

December 5, 2023
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

Transforming Enterprise Safety Initiatives with AI

In the timeless quest for workplace safety, the pursuit of innovative solutions has been a constant. From the ancient builders of Egyptian pyramids to the trailblazers of 20th-century behavior-based safety, history reflects an ongoing commitment to minimizing accidents and enhancing the well-being of workers.

December 7, 2023
3 Mins
EHSQ Industry

Unstructured Data: Finding Strategies for Optimization

In a landscape where insurers are navigating the dualities of digitalization, the latest insights from the Insuretechs Collective's whitepaper, "The Duality of Insurance Digitalization," provide a roadmap for addressing challenges and transforming them into opportunities. Protex AI, a key contributor to the collective, takes center stage in decoding the complexities, focusing on the critical issue of unstructured data.

November 15, 2023
EHSQ Industry

The Game-Changing ROI of AI Safety Solutions Webinar - Key Takeaways

Have you missed our recent webinar on the ROI of AI safety solutions? Have a look at the key points discussed below.

September 22, 2023
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Enhancing Workplace Safety in the Manufacturing Industry with AI

The world of work is in a constant state of evolution. Failing to keep up with technological advancements can put organizations and individuals at a disadvantage.

September 17, 2023
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

The Cost of Ignoring Safety AI in the Logistics & Supply-Chain Industry

Investing in new technology can feel like a gamble, but have you considered the risks of not investing in the best available safety tech?

September 25, 2024
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

How Safety AI is driving ROI in the Logistics Industry

Discover Protex AI's remarkable ROI in enhancing safety cultures, reducing incidents, and streamlining processes, providing valuable cost and time savings for organisations in the logistics industry!

July 28, 2023
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

‍Beyond Compliance: A story on how AI ensures proper PPE use for employee safety!

This blog narrates a fictional representation of the experiences of safety managers Colin and Rachel at different manufacturing companies. It introduces how Rachel proactively uses AI to monitor and improve workplace safety through tracking PPE usage, identifying unsafe incidents, and fostering constructive conversations with workers.

September 5, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

The link between warehouse safety and resilient supply chain

In this article, we’ll focus on the importance of warehouse safety and its critical importance in minimizing safety disruptions, ensuring product integrity, and maintaining the resilience of the overall supply chain.

October 10, 2024
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Revolutionizing warehouse safety: Exploring AI technology and automation solutions

This article explores the latest technological advancements, including robotics, AI-enabled safety systems, and warehouse management systems (WMS), detailing how they are driving enhanced safety and operational effectiveness in the warehouse environment. 

August 5, 2024
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

AI's role in promoting a proactive safety culture webinar key takeaways

Have you missed our recent webinar on how AI can help promote a proactive safety culture? Have a look at the key points discussed below.

June 19, 2023
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Maximizing workplace safety: How AI can improve KPIs

In this blog post, we'll explore four safety KPIs that can help you move from reactive to proactive monitoring of occupational safety and health (OSH) and the benefits of using AI to collect meaningful and accurate KPIs.

August 23, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

Accelerating OHS Accreditation with the Power of AI and Computer Vision

In this blog, we explore how AI and computer vision can play a proactive role in supporting OHS accreditation under the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model, helping organizations to achieve their accreditation goals efficiently and effectively.

August 20, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

5 Ways AI/Computer Vision Is Reducing Risk in Warehousing

In this article, we'll be exploring five ways in which computer vision can make warehousing and logistics safer for workers. From detecting collisions to spotting unauthorized movements.

February 21, 2023
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

Getting Senior Management Buy-In for your AI Safety Software Project

Getting approvals from senior management to implement a new AI safety software project can be difficult, but definitely not impossible...

July 23, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

How AI can improve your safety KPIs

Find out how AI can enhance your workplace safety KPIs by using artificial intelligence to identify risks, streamline protocols, and improve safety performance.

October 14, 2024
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Changing perceptions of AI amongst EHS pro's key takeaways

Have you missed our recent webinar on Changing Perceptions of AI Amongst EHS Pro's? Have a look at the key points discussed below.

December 1, 2022
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Protex AI EHS perceptions of AI survey findings

In October 2022. Nearly 400 people responded to the survey that Protex AI developed in order to gain insight into the perceptions of AI & computer Vision in the EHS industry - Here are the findings;

November 29, 2022
4 mins
EHSQ Industry

Look and learn - Cases where CCTV evidence was critical in the prosecutions.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is widely used to control access to safeguard lone workers and to provide out-of-hours surveillance. When there is a crime or a serious accident, the authorities will require all relevant CCTV images to be made available. Here are two cases where CCTV evidence was critical in the prosecutions.

October 1, 2022
3 mins
Technology

Artificial Intelligence - From nice to have to need to have!

How much must you do to keep people safe and healthy? Here we break down the concept of reasonably practicable and measures that are becoming reasonably practical in the EHS industry.

July 15, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

5 ways COVID-19 accelerated AI in the workplace

Here are five ways AI was applied during the pandemic -– along with the impact these approaches are having on the post-COVID workplace. 

July 5, 2022
3 mins
Company

Protex AI introduces new EcoOnline integration

The new Protex AI integration with EcoOnline makes it easier than ever to make data-informed safety decisions using computer vision.

December 1, 2022
3 mins
Technology

Getting senior management buy-In for your safety AI project

Following these three steps will help you convince decision-makers to invest in the purchase of beneficial Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.

June 28, 2024
3 mins
EHSQ Industry

How AI could alter EHS training forever

Virtual reality is being used for EHS training by companies with considerable training budgets. However, VR is not yet widely used, due in part to the high expense and experience constraints. Some of these limits can be overcome by combining AI and VR.

August 30, 2023
2 mins
News

Dan Hobbs to Speak at the Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit!

Don't miss this opportunity to harness the power of Natural Language Processing in Business Intelligence! Learn from top industry experts how to transform complex data into meaningful insights that drive user engagement and decision-making.

June 28, 2024
1 min
News

Protex AI featured in Siliconrepublic

Potex AI was featured in Silinconrepublic a leading source for technology, science and start-up news; an opportunity for Dan and Ciaran to discuss their journey to date, and also share their vision for the future of the company...

March 9, 2023
3 mins
News

Dan & Ciaran on the Forbes Europe 30 under 30!

We're really proud to announce that Dan & Ciaran just scored a coveted spot on the Forbes Europe 30 under 30 list for Technology...

March 9, 2023
News

Progress on diversity in business undermined by too few women pursuing STEM careers – BTYSTE forum told

Ciaran and Dan were recently asked by the Irish Times their thoughts on the housing and shortage of venture capital main obstacles to start-up activity in Ireland in the Irish Times.

January 19, 2023
3 mins
News

Protex AI Mentioned in the IOSH Article on Transforming Health And Safety With AI

IOSH Magazine recently published and article on the impact of AI on Health and Safety and mentioned Protex AI as one of the key actor in the industry. Find out more in the article...

January 9, 2023
3 mins
News

Irish startup Protex AI helps Marks and Spencer to reduce workplace incidents

Marks and Spencer says that it has reduced workplace incidents by 80% just 10 weeks after introducing AI driven health and safety technology from Protex AI to its distribution centre in Castle Donington.

December 6, 2022
2 minutes