A Safety Guide for Critical Jobsites

The most critical industrial Jobsites

Injuries on the workplaces are a common yet unfortunate aspect of working. However, some industries tend to be more dangerous than others. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) deems the most dangerous work according to fatality rate.

Construction Industry: Workers are tasked with a variety of duties, most if not all of which carry a heightened level of risk of injury. Fatal injury rate: 43.4 per 100,000 workers.

Mining Industry: Miners who operate heavy machinery as part of their job duties are at higher risk of injuries and fatality. Fatal injury rate: 21.6 per 100,000 workers

Oil & Gas Industry: it is one of the most hazardous industries with potential risks of accidents. Fatal injury rate: 19.8 injuries per 1000 exposed.

Manufacturing: It presents a challenging predicament with hazard to health and safety of workers. fatal injury rate: 4.3 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses per year across world.

Safety Challenges in Critical Jobsites: Common to all

1. Work at Height Accident: Critical jobsites associated with construction and oil and gas industries often use every square to its fullest ultilising many levels and decks. This always puts workers at the risk of slipping, tripping, and falling. Safety Officers/HSE managers cannot manually monitor avoidable conditions to prevent such incidents.
2. Poor Housekeeping: Housekeeping is another responsibility that needs to be taken care of to prevent incidents by creating hazards that can cause injuries to the workers. Thus, poor housekeeping in the critical working environments like manufacturing & oil & gas industry contributes to major safety lapses and accidents.
3. Chemical/ Electrical/ Mechanical Exposure: Industrial setups are often associated with exposure to harmful substances, electrical and mechanical shocks which causes fatalities and injuries. It is difficult to have an eye on every worker at every time, thus safety officers/HSE managers often find it challenging to prevent such incidences.
4. Confined Space Injuries: Confined space operation monitoring remains a cumbersome task for safety officers. Worker's working in storage tanks, reserve pits, underground sewage collectors, underground mines and excavated areas are prone to numerous hazards especially in construction, mining and oil & gas industries. I have sharing about "The Use of AI to enhance safety measures, and cutting-edge respiratory solutions" in the Webinar Navigating Confined Spaces: Expert Solutions and Emergency Guidance for Safety and Rescue . In this webinar, we will explore essential confined space safety topics, including the necessary equipment for pre-check and entry. We will also cover effective fall prevention and rescue techniques specific to confined spaces and delve into case studies that provide valuable insights into confined space rescue and management.
5. Fire & Explosion: industrial environment is often prone to fires and explosions which lead to grave consequences not only for workers and their workspace but also life and property in the surrounding areas and even entire ecosystems. Thus, even a small negligence by security officer(s) may lead to catastrophic disasters.
6. Poor Fleet Management: Improper fleet management is a important cause of hurdle for safety officers/HSE managers as vehicle-related accidents leads to loss of workforce in most of critical industries. Thus, it is a requirement to have proper fleet management for making overall operations cost-effective and productive and labour safety.
7. Intrusion into restricted/hazardous/danger zones: Critical jobsites are marked with restricted/hazardous danger zones like areas at height without barricades, open electrical wirings, wet floors, area close to machines, inventories etc. However, keeping a keen eye on workers manually brings added difficulties for safety officers.

AI Video Analytics

With growing stringency in governmental regulations, safety in workplaces has been a much talked about topic. Safety officers are always concerned about their responsibility of creating a safer working environment for workers; while at the same time, optimally running operations. However, it is not an easy task to develop and implement safety plans by conducting site inspections.

Here comes in AI powered Video Analytics!

Let’s understand the 10 ways how AI video analytics eases safety officer operations.

1. Monitoring safety worker’s non-compliant activities
2. Prevention of accidents with actionable data
3. Facial Recognition for auto-tracking of workforce (entry & exit) 4. 24*7 Human-less error-free monitoring of jobsite
4. Automated spotting of problematic behavioural trends
5. Transparency in workflow with instant alerts
6. Recorded video footage for training purposes 8. Faster decisions with real time monitoring.
7. Data driven consistency and quality of work 10. Alarms on worker’s safety negligence

HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR BEST FIT SOLUTION: viAct’s EXPERT ADVICE

viAct after serving various critical industries since 2016, understands that when it comes down to decide https://www.viact.ai/ which solution fits you the best to enhance safety of a jobsite, owing to its complexity of industrial operations, it is always a dilemma! However, in terms of AI, especially for jobsite navigation in critical industrial spaces, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach for every project. Each project has its own unique needs and requirements based on its size, number of locations, budget, and more.

This is why viAct provides multiple scenario-based AI-powered solution boosted with video analytics. But before going for any video analytics solution, here are the few prerequisites and preparatory step which could save huge penny in the deployment process

Understand your exact requirement and note down your problem statement. Jotting down pinpoints is the first step towards making a jobsite smarter, and thus it needs to be noted down very carefully without overlapping one problem statement over the other.

Discuss the problem statement very clearly with the service provider. This must cover the answers to questions like “Why do you want to go for a smarter surveillance?” “What is the major safety issue that you wish to mitigate?” “What is the nature of your jobsite?” and the like.

Evaluate the availability of hardware required to upgrade your jobsite with AI video analytics. A CCTV/IP camera with electrical and internet support is the primary requisite for adaptation of any video analytics solution.

Dig deep into industrial rules and regulations as well as privacy threats associated with AI video analytics. You must choose to opt for a responsible AI which takes adequate steps to establish GDPR compliances. Also choose which server you wish to host the AI: on-premise, private cloud or public cloud.

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