A Winsford tech firm joined forces with an engineering business to launch a new AI-powered app to improve workplace safety.
This month Safety Shield Global and AmcoGiffen launched their new site team reporting and emergency accident management (S.T.R.E.A.M) app.
The app, which uses advanced human form recognition (HFR) technology tailored to specific site dimensions and plant operations, provides real-time alerts of incidents to supervisors.
With a built-in escalation process for project and contract managers, the S.T.R.E.A.M app warns of activities, processes, or behaviours which could lead to a potential incidents involving people and machinery (people-plant interface – PPI).
S.T.R.E.A.M is a highly advanced extension to the Safety Shield Global VUE portal, which collates data on incidents of PPI from its alarm system that provides audio and visual alerts whenever a human form encroaches into the plant’s camera-monitored danger zones.
AmcoGiffen is currently rolling out the S.T.R.E.A.M app across all sites, and the app will ultimately be available for other Safety Shield clients to adopt into their businesses’ strategic safety operations.
Chris English, SHEQ director, AmcoGiffen, said: "The real-time alerts allow our site supervisors to review the working environment, the work plan and any at-risk behaviours present. Understanding the cause enables a real-time intervention to stop work, and for the workforce to identify and agree different ways of working to eliminate PPI risk."
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