diff --git a/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_diffusion.py b/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_diffusion.py
index 1b880e736c..5013db482e 100644
--- a/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_diffusion.py
+++ b/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_diffusion.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     StableDiffusionXLImg2ImgPipeline,
     StableDiffusionXLPipeline,
 )
+from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.safety_checker import StableDiffusionSafetyChecker
 from diffusers.schedulers.scheduling_utils import SCHEDULER_CONFIG_NAME
 from diffusers.utils import CONFIG_NAME, is_invisible_watermark_available
 from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ def __init__(
         tokenizer: Optional["CLIPTokenizer"] = None,
         tokenizer_2: Optional["CLIPTokenizer"] = None,
         feature_extractor: Optional["CLIPFeatureExtractor"] = None,
+        safety_checker: Optional["StableDiffusionSafetyChecker"] = None,
         device: str = "CPU",
         dynamic_shapes: bool = True,
         compile: bool = True,
@@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.tokenizer_2 = tokenizer_2
         self.scheduler = scheduler
         self.feature_extractor = feature_extractor
-        self.safety_checker = None
+        self.safety_checker = safety_checker
         self.preprocessors = []
 
         if self.is_dynamic:
@@ -1082,6 +1084,22 @@ def __call__(
             **kwargs,
         )
 
+    def run_safety_checker(self, image: np.ndarray):
+        if self.safety_checker is None:
+            has_nsfw_concept = None
+        else:
+            # Transpose the image to NHWC
+            image = image.transpose(0, 2, 3, 1)
+
+            feature_extractor_input = self.image_processor.numpy_to_pil(image)
+            safety_checker_input = self.feature_extractor(feature_extractor_input, return_tensors="pt")
+            image, has_nsfw_concept = self.safety_checker(images=image, clip_input=safety_checker_input.pixel_values)
+
+            # Transpose the image back to NCHW
+            image = image.transpose(0, 3, 1, 2)
+
+        return image, has_nsfw_concept
+
 
 def _raise_invalid_batch_size(
     expected_batch_size: int, batch_size: int, num_images_per_prompt: int, guidance_scale: float