AI-driven incident prevention solution to optimise plant safety

Mining and metals processing are challenging environments and workers can sometimes not understand or be aware of potential risks during their work. Workers may not follow safety rules to try and get work done faster and this can lead to accidents.

While these tragic events are damaging enough, they also accumulate hours of lost time and billions in costs.

Traditional video surveillance is not practical in a mine and often difficult in metals processing plants- nor is it good enough to rely on supervisor observation methods to assess worker and environmental safety. Opportunities to miss critical events always exist due to distraction, human error, fatigue and lone working. The entire legacy process is reactionary, with the inability to offer real-time proactive warnings to workers.

With industrial-grade wearables and manager portals, this solution offers end-to-end efficiency that alerts management and workers in real time to potential safety hazards. Cutting-edge technology tackles the problem of workplace safety by continuously monitoring worker behaviour and generating a more complete situational understanding of every worker's environment. This complete understanding allows the system to intervene intelligently and help prevent accidents in real time.

The system also works on edge without a connection and automatically downloads data once a network is connected. This allows the system to run in remote mining locations, such as an underground headings, where internet is not available or on remote exploration sites.

This is an AI solution that scans through inputs, such as cameras, in real-time, and proactively and immediately alerts workers and managers to safety concerns. The real-time situational awareness, location services, and insights into worker activity increase productivity and ensure workers are acting within safety parameters.

Features include geofencing, PPE detection, safety zone compliance, fall detection, vehicle-worker collision protection, and proximity warnings. It’s an end-to-end system that provides a cloud-based user portal with predictive analytics, and a coaching module to build overall safety adherence.