SAFETY TECHNOLOGY
HOW AI IS CHANGING THE GAME FOR
HEALTH & SAFETY BLINDSIGHT, AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VISION TECHNOLOGY, IS CREATING A NEW STANDARD FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER HEAVY INDUSTRIES. ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTS.
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here are roughly 150 fatal accidents and 100,000 serious injuries in the Australian workplace each year. Heavy industries, including construction, logistics and warehousing, agriculture and forestry, manufacturing, and mining, disproportionality contribute to these statistics, with about 65 per cent
of all fatalities. 1 Vehicle-related accidents are by far the leading cause of fatalities, accounting for about 65 per cent of all workplace fatalities. The national-level costs of these fatalities and injuries are estimated at $61.8 billion and $17 billion for associated property damage, representing 4.1 per cent of GDP.2
Australian businesses spend more than $100 billion annually on prevention, insurance, and compensation.3 However, the real state of health and safety in the construction sector remains unknown. Current manual reporting relies on lag indicators of actual accidents rather than real-time or even lead indicators of
Blindsight is an AI vision safety system to stop accidents by alerting the operator and people around to high-risk scenarios.
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