
Solution Brief
Improve workplace safety
Reduce and prevent workplace accidents with data and AI.
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:
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.
SAS in manufacturing
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A global distribution company achieved 95% unsafe-behavior detection accuracy.
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It also reduced unsafe behaviors by 80% in just two months, significantly reducing incident rates.