Digital Thumbs Up With Safety Shield
Following on from a recent trial regarding our Plant interface, we are continuing to invest in our workforce’s safety and mitigate any risk to ensure the safety of everyone involved in our operations and provide our team with the best toolkit.
To support this initiative, we facilitated a demonstration morning on site alongside Safety Shield Global, who delivered an engaging presentation and a show-and-tell workshop centred around the Digital Thumbs Up system.
This enabled further opportunity for feedback and conversation with a handful of our key clients who were invited along to experience this interactive session with us. Seeing first-hand the impact of adopting and embedding a new yet simple control measure to boost existing operational approaches was hugely insightful.
Jonathan Milnes, HSQE Director, commented:
Today offered a brilliant opportunity to demonstrate a quality system that we’re committed to incorporating on new Plant kit moving forward. We hope those who attended will come away with increased confidence in our operations and applaud our attitude regarding safety innovation.
What?
Safety Shield which includes the digital thumbs up display allowing the site user to safely communicate with the machine operator. When a site user wants to approach the machine, they give a thumbs up gesture from a safe distance to the operator. Once the operator has seen the thumbs up signal, they will bring this machine to a controlled stop. By pressing the in-cab Digital ‘Thumbs Up’ button the machine will then be disabled, and the exterior LED sign will change from a red no entry sign to a green thumbs up sign with an audible external acceptance message. This then allows the site personnel a safe way to approach the machine without any doubt they have been seen.
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How
The AI cameras look for Human Form and when detected they provide an audible warning to the operator and persons that has encroached a working radius and provide a visual in-cab warning showing the operator where the person has entered the working radius. When giving the thumbs up signal, the operator can push a button which in turn isolates the machine and displays a thumbs up externally giving an audible signal to approach with caution – this however proves clear communication between the operator and the operative on the ground.
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Where
Safety Shield AI cameras have already been installed on a crawler crane at our Hull CDC site.
Why
To improve the safety of the workforce and rise beyond industry standards.
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We’d like to extend our thanks to Safety Shield Global for showcasing this product in further depth with us, and we look forward to adopting this efficient system across our Plant.
