Solution Brief

Improve workplace safety

Reduce and prevent workplace accidents with data and AI.

Overview

Manage risk and improve workplace safety

The issue

Safety is essential in manufacturing workplaces, which are typically hazardous environments that include chemicals, dangerous machinery and intricate processes. Ensuring worker safety and security has multiple business benefits beyond protecting workers. It also boosts productivity and morale and minimizes downtime. However, today's safety standards fall short, risking lives unnecessarily and making it more difficult to meet operational goals.

Many manufacturers are stuck in a reactive approach to safety, unable to manage risk effectively enough to stop incidents from occurring. Without worker safety IoT solutions, they’re reliant on training and human intervention, both of which can be fallible.

The challenge

When trying to improve workplace safety, manufacturers face numerous challenges, including:

Demand for productivity

Stress brought on by pressure to meet production goals or unreasonable deadlines, especially without proper staffing or support, can cause workers to be distracted and/or rush, leading to injury.

Complex work processes

Unpredictable events, behaviors or interactions between process components or subsystems raise the likelihood of accidents.

Changing work environments

Change can lead to a lack of adequate training, confusion, mistakes, disruption of safety procedures, increased stress levels and new hazards, all of which can result in accidents or injuries.

Improving safety in such a challenging environment requires worker safety solutions that enable manufacturers to move from a reactive to a proactive approach. SAS enables this shift with trustworthy data and AI that manufacturers can use to anticipate and address unsafe behaviors in real time, proactively preventing workplace safety incidents.

SAS worker safety IoT solutions bring value to your business by reducing:

(Number of actual incidents; Hours of work stoppage; Workers’ compensation insurance premiums; Worker turnover; Cost of equipment maintenance)

Our approach

Create a safer workplace by managing the safety challenges inherent in manufacturing. Our enterprise-grade computer vision and sensor-enabled SAS worker safety solution – powered by SoftServe's engineering services and SAS Analytics for IoT – targets unsafe behaviors, eight of which appear on OSHA’s list of top 10 worker safety violations.

We approach the problem by providing software and services to help you:

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Proactively mitigate risks

Anticipate potential workplace hazards with predictive analytics that allow for preemptive measures.

Monitor unsafe behavior

Define unsafe behavior parameters and detect violations as they happen with camera vision, IoT sensors and geofencing.

Respond to incidents faster

Real-time alerts enable you to prevent accidents by changing an unsafe behavior as soon as it occurs.

Align with regulations and maintain compliance

Maintain a safety culture that meets and exceeds regulatory and personally identifiable information (PII) requirements with secured environments and proper protocols.

With seamless integration into your existing hardware environment, the worker safety solution predicts and prevents incidents by detecting high-risk violation cases, excluding human decision factors and providing an extra layer of predictive analysis.

SAS difference

SAS enables you to reduce and prevent safety incidents in real time. With a scalable architecture, applied across various facilities and use cases, our worker safety solution provides end-to-end deployment. Use your current infrastructure or introduce new cameras, IoT sensors or hardware, and store data in the cloud or on-premises.

Gain transparency in operations

Computer vision enables you to identify workers entering prohibited spaces, determine the presence of PPE, detect thermal anomalies, discover defective parts, improve performance, reduce regulatory reporting time and more.

Derive practical insights from safety data

SAS provides the widest range of high-performance analytics – descriptive, prescriptive, predictive, AI and ML.

Operationalize models with enterprise scale, performance and security

Use automated ML to quickly generate and validate models – no recoding necessary.

Detect and visualize patterns

Augment safety briefs, safety protocols and training based on historical patterns.

Enable quick, efficient information sharing

The platform's seamless communication channels enhance collaboration and coordination during emergencies or routine safety procedures.

Easily stay ahead of audits

SAS provides robust processes and built-in compliance features, including data minimization and anonymization.

Maintain effectiveness

The solution adjusts to workplace environment changes and allows you to respond to evolving safety requirements and industry standards.

The worker safety solution has a proven ability to improve safety and security. It identifies safety gaps and opportunities, creating a tailored operational pilot based on practical insights. This pilot serves as the foundation for configuring solutions specific to your environment. Our strategic operationalization and multilayered analytical approach distinguish the worker safety solution from others.

Take advantage of a user-friendly interface

Observe trends and data, take data snapshots and generate reports. Minimize training time and empower users to effectively use the solution from day one. Intuitive design ensures easy adoption and integration into daily workflows.
Improve incident response time

Real-time monitoring and instant alerts enable fast responses to potential safety incidents. Lower response time, mitigate risks and minimize worker impact. Get alerts and review the most recent updates and events on the go.
Edit/create a monitored zone and enhance communication

Establish a variety of rules and parameters specifying how to precisely intervene once a violation is detected. Seamless communication channels within the platform facilitate quick information sharing among team members.
Proactively mitigate risks

Predictive analytics anticipates potential workplace hazards, allowing for preemptive measures. Move from a reactive to a proactive safety approach, reducing the likelihood of incidents. View a list of violations and analyze the trends.
Adapt to changes and gain flexibility

The solution adjusts to workplace environment changes for continuous effectiveness. Respond to evolving safety requirements and industry standards. Request and review the implementation of new detection rules with computer vision.