Capabilities - PPE Detection
PPE Detection is designed to monitor workers to verify that required personal protective equipment is being worn. It can identify hard hats, high-visibility vests, safety goggles, gloves, and respiratory protection across several camera feeds at once. Rather than relying on periodic manual inspections, continuous monitoring can catch equipment that is removed or forgotten.
- Compliance Monitoring
- Continuous
- PPE Types
- Hats, Vests, Gloves
- Flagged for Review
- Snapshots
How it works - PPE Detection in three steps
How PPE Detection works with the cameras you already run.
- Connect Site Cameras. Use your site cameras at entry gates, work zones, and high-risk areas.
- Detect Workers and Equipment. The system finds each worker and the PPE they are wearing or missing, and checks it against the rules for that camera's zone.
- Flag Missing PPE. When a worker enters a zone without required PPE, the system flags it for your safety team to review, with a snapshot and the specific items missing. All compliance events are logged for reporting.
Features
What PPE Detection can do.
- Hard Hat Detection. Detects the presence or absence of hard hats on workers, distinguishing between proper wearing, improper wearing (tilted, or backward where your site does not allow it), and absence.
- High-Visibility Vest Detection. Identifies high-vis vests and jackets, including color classification (orange, yellow, green) to verify the correct vest type for the work zone.
- Safety Goggle and Face Shield Detection. Verifies eye protection is worn in designated areas.
- Glove Detection. Identifies whether workers are wearing gloves when handling materials or operating equipment. Best performance with cameras positioned to capture hand and arm regions.
- Respiratory Protection Detection. Detects N95 masks, half-face respirators, and full-face respirators, and flags a mask worn below the nose.
- Zone-Based PPE Rules. Configure different PPE requirements for different zones within a site. A warehouse aisle may require only vests, while a welding bay requires full face shield, gloves, and apron.
- Site-Specific PPE. Can be set up to recognize PPE specific to your site, such as fall harnesses, hearing protection or particular aprons.
- Compliance Reporting Dashboard. Daily, weekly, and monthly compliance rates by zone, shift, and PPE type. Exportable reports support safety audit documentation.
What we detect - Six types of protection, checked continuously
The system does more than check that an item is there. It is designed to check how each item is worn and whether it is the right item for the zone, gaps that periodic inspections can miss.
Hard Hat
The system is designed to check that the hard hat is on the worker’s head and worn correctly, not just nearby. A hat tilted backward, carried in hand, or sitting on a shelf does not count as worn, so hats tipped back for comfort or taken off when a supervisor walks away can be flagged.
Catches PPE worn the wrong way as well as PPE that is missing.
High-Visibility Vest
Different zones often require different vest colors: orange for ground crews, green for visitors, yellow for operators. The system checks that a vest is worn, fastened and the right color for the zone. Workers who leave vests open or grab the wrong color can be flagged at the entrance to a restricted area.
Checks for the right vest color in each zone.
Safety Goggles & Face Shield
Eye protection pushed up on the forehead is present but gives no protection. The system is designed to tell goggles over the eyes from goggles on the forehead, and safety goggles from regular glasses or sunglasses, and it can work from standard ceiling-mounted cameras.
Flags goggles pushed up on the forehead, which a simple check would count as worn.
Gloves
The system checks each hand, so it catches a worker who takes off one glove to use a phone or handle paperwork in a glove-required zone. It can also tell glove types apart, to check that workers have the right protection for the task.
Checks each hand and catches one-glove shortcuts.
Respiratory Protection
A respirator worn below the nose gives little protection, and it is easy to miss on a walkthrough. The system checks whether a mask covers both nose and mouth, and tells N95 masks, half-face respirators, and full-face units apart, so each zone can require its own level of protection. It cannot check the seal; that still takes a fit test.
Flags a mask worn below the nose.
Custom PPE
Every site has its own requirements: fall harnesses at height, hearing protection near heavy machinery, specific aprons in welding bays. The system can be set up to recognize your site's PPE. We work with your safety team to pick the items that matter most, using example images from your own site.
Set up for the equipment your workers need.
Use cases
Applications of PPE Detection across industries.
Construction Site Safety
Construction sites have varying PPE requirements across zones and trades. Continuous monitoring can verify that workers wear the correct equipment as they move between different risk areas.
- Construction
Manufacturing Floor Compliance
Factory floors require specific PPE near machines, chemical storage, and assembly areas. Automated detection can catch workers who forget to don required equipment after breaks.
- Manufacturing
Oil and Gas Operations
Refineries and drilling sites have strict PPE requirements that vary by hazard zone. Camera-based monitoring can supplement manual safety patrols in hard-to-access areas.
- Energy
- Chemical
Mining Operations
Underground and open-pit mines require continuous PPE monitoring in environments where conditions change rapidly. The system is designed to operate under challenging lighting and dust conditions.
- Mining
Food Processing Hygiene
Food facilities require hairnets, gloves, and sometimes face shields in processing areas. Detection can verify hygiene compliance throughout production shifts.
- Food Processing
- Manufacturing
Laboratory Safety
Research laboratories require goggles, gloves, and lab coats in specific areas. Automated monitoring can support laboratory safety officers in maintaining compliance with institutional protocols.
- Research
- Pharma
Fitted to your site - Set up for your site and your equipment
Five ways the system can go past the basic checks: damaged gear, a PPE inventory, difficult lighting, trends over time and new situations.
Equipment Condition Monitoring
The gap
A cracked hard hat, a vest with faded reflective strips, or scratched goggles all pass a check that only looks for the item, yet none of them gives full protection.
How we close it
Using images of your own equipment, the system can be set up to flag visible damage, such as a cracked hard hat shell or a torn glove, for your safety team to inspect and replace.
Can flag visible damage that a simple check would pass.
Automatic PPE Inventory
The gap
When deploying to a new site, someone has to catalog every type of PPE in use before the system can be configured. On large sites with multiple zones, trades, and contractors, this inventory process is slow and often incomplete.
How we close it
The system can watch your site and group workers by the equipment they wear. Your safety team reviews and names the groups, so you confirm what the system found instead of listing every PPE type by hand.
Finds the PPE in use on your site for your team to confirm.
Works in Your Environment
The gap
Real sites are hard to see: sodium lighting in underground mines, glare on outdoor construction, steam in food processing. A system set up only for clean, well-lit scenes can struggle there.
How we close it
Before the first compliance check, the system is tuned on video from your own cameras, with your lighting, backgrounds, camera angles and workers.
Adapted to your lighting, cameras, and conditions before the first event is flagged.
Compliance Trend Analysis
The gap
Spot checks show compliance at one moment. They miss patterns, like the crew that removes goggles after lunch, or the zone where vest use drops every Friday afternoon.
How we close it
Continuous monitoring builds a compliance picture by zone, shift, crew and time of day. The system points out repeat patterns, so your safety team can fix root causes as well as single violations.
Turns single violations into patterns your team can fix, by zone, shift and time.
Early Warning for New Situations
The gap
Regulations change, new hazards appear, and PPE requirements evolve. A fixed system only detects what it was first set up for, and everything else is a blind spot.
How we close it
The system can keep track of what normal looks like across your site. When something changes, such as workers wearing unfamiliar equipment or a change in how people move through a zone, it flags the change for your team to look into.
Flags unusual changes for your team to review, even ones it has not been set up to spot.
Try PPE Detection at your site
A pilot runs on video from your camera system for an agreed period, and you get a report of the results.
Industries where this applies
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Contact us
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