Real-time PPE compliance, on every camera.
Arctus turned passive site cameras into a live safety net, a custom-trained AI that flags missing hard hats, hi-vis and other PPE the moment it happens, running entirely on-site so footage never leaves the client’s control.
A safety risk you cannot watch everywhere
On a live construction or industrial site, a single missing hard hat can become a fatality, a shut-down, or a multi-million-dollar prosecution. Yet no supervisor can watch every worker on every camera, every second of every shift. Sites already have the cameras. What they lack is something that actually watches them.
Sources: Safe Work Australia, Key WHS Statistics 2025; Deloitte / SWA 2022; model WHS penalties 2024-25. Industry context, not specific to one client.
- Human supervision cannot cover every camera, around the clock
- Generic, off-the-shelf models miss the site’s real PPE and conditions
- Foreign cloud SaaS: recurring per-camera fees and footage sent off-shore
- No objective, timestamped record to prove compliance after the fact
- Rising WHS penalties, with industrial manslaughter now in the law
An on-site PPE compliance platform
Arctus designed and built a bespoke platform: live multi-camera detection that runs on a machine on the site itself, so footage never leaves the operator’s control. Not a generic model pointed at the cameras, a system trained on the operator’s real conditions, on roughly 37,000 labelled site images across 13 PPE classes, with an explicit “missing” class for each item.
Connect
Any site camera, USB, RTSP or wireless, found and added in a click.
Detect
The custom model checks every worker for required PPE, live, on-site.
Alert & log
Breaches trigger an instant alert and a timestamped incident record.
Improve
The site’s own footage retrains the model, sharper every day.
From blind spots to an owned capability
The platform turns passive cameras into an active safety net. One operator now monitors every feed at once; every violation is caught, boxed and logged the moment it happens. Because it runs on-site, there is no per-camera cloud bill and no footage leaving the country. And it compounds, every day the model gets sharper, turning routine monitoring into a proprietary asset.
“It runs on the client’s own site, on their own hardware, and the footage never leaves. That is what makes it usable for real safety, not just a demo.”
| Metric | Before | After | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| PPE monitoring | Spot checks, human eyes | Every camera, every second | Continuous coverage |
| Detection model | Generic or none | Custom-trained on site gear | Fits the real site |
| Footage & data | Off-shore cloud SaaS | On-site, never leaves | Sovereign by design |
| Compliance record | Anecdotal | Timestamped incident log | Audit-ready |
| Cost model | Per-camera subscription | Owned platform | No recurring per-cam fee |
| The model | Static | Retrains on your footage | Compounding asset |