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PPE compliance monitoring

PPE compliance monitoring is the continuous check of every person in a camera's view against the protective equipment required in that area: hard hat, high-visibility vest, gloves. A safety officer sees a fraction of the floor for a fraction of the shift. Camzify checks each confirmed person against the policy set for that camera or zone, produces a clip per violation, and can add the check to the patrol round so the site is recorded as compliant at each time.

  • Hats, vests and gloves against a per-zone policy
  • A clip and confidence score per violation
  • Compliance recorded on the round
A factory floor with each worker outlined and hard hat and vest checks shown beside them
The problem

The policy is on the wall. Compliance is not.

Every site has the sign at the gate and a policy in the induction pack, and compliance is whatever the safety officer happens to see while walking the floor. A hard hat comes off in the heat, a vest is left in the cab, and the record says the site was compliant because nobody wrote down that it was not.

After an injury the question is what the site looked like at that hour, and the answer is usually a recollection. The cameras saw it. They were not asked.

How Camzify handles it

Every person in frame, checked against the zone

PPE violation detection checks each confirmed person in the camera view against the equipment required for that camera or zone and raises an alert with a clip and a confidence score when something required is missing. The check is weighed over the person's track rather than one frame, so a hat hidden for a second behind a rack is not a violation. The policy is per zone, so the dock and the office beside it carry different requirements on the same account.

Add the check to a patrol round and the site is recorded as compliant, or not, at each stop and each time, with the frame. That is the record an inspector or an insurer asks for after an incident, and it exists before anyone asks. Slip and fall detection on the same cameras covers the injury itself, and the workplace safety page covers falls, exits and exclusion zones together.

The patrol round

What a safety round checks

A safety sequence is the cameras on the working areas in order, and its checklist mixes equipment and conditions: everyone in hats, vests on, exclusion zone clear, walkways unobstructed, extinguisher points accessible. Run at the start of each shift and mid-shift, it produces a report per round that shows the site as it was, with frames, which is worth more in a review than a signed checklist.

Where the round is automated, the AI also raises a critical notification for a safety risk it sees that the checklist did not ask about.

A check found Not Compliant captures a snapshot and messages the guard designated for that camera; on a manual round the operator chooses to send it, on an automated round it goes on its own. The item stays Pending until it is marked Fixed, which captures the after frame, and the report shows both.

What it will not do

It will not check equipment it is not built for: harnesses, eye protection and respirators are not claimed. It will not identify the person; the clip shows what a supervisor would see and no more. It will not see a person the camera cannot see, or a hat under a hood the camera cannot resolve. And it does not decide the consequence; that stays with your safety process.

We do not publish detection accuracy or injury-reduction figures. The trust page sets out why.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Hard hats, high-visibility vests and gloves, checked on every confirmed person in frame against the policy set for that camera or zone. A dock can require hats and vests while the office beside it requires nothing, without different cameras. Other equipment types are not claimed.

No. It is a continuous check that produces a timestamped clip for the safety officer or supervisor to act on, and a record for audits and incident reviews. The judgement about what to do with a repeat violation is theirs.

The check is weighed against the confirmed track of the person rather than a single frame, so a hard hat momentarily hidden behind a rack does not become a violation. Every alert carries a confidence score and the clip, so a reviewer can confirm at a glance.

The policy is per camera or zone. The notification window on the detection sets the hours during which violations are notified, so a yard that is only a hard-hat area during working hours notifies only during them. Outside that window the detection is quiet.

The detection checks equipment on a person, not identity. It does not recognize faces or name anyone, and the clip shows what any supervisor on the floor would see. How you inform staff is a matter for your policy; we recommend telling them, because a known check changes behavior on its own.

A log of violations per camera with time, clip and confidence, and a patrol report per round if you add PPE to the checklist: at each stop, are the people in frame wearing what the zone requires, judged from the frame and kept with it.

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