Protex AI applies computer vision to existing CCTV on industrial sites, detecting safety conditions in real time: PPE compliance, vehicle and pedestrian separation, ergonomics, area control and housekeeping, alongside operational analysis of facility flow.
The safety case is genuinely strong. Forklift-pedestrian collisions and missing protective equipment cause serious injuries and deaths in warehouses and plants every year, and the traditional control is an observation walk that samples a few minutes of a continuous operation. Cameras are already installed and already recording; extracting proximity and PPE signals from them addresses hazards that periodic inspection structurally cannot see. Protex was ranked highest in the 2026 Verdantix video analytics report.
It is still workplace monitoring, and that has to be handled deliberately. Analysing employee behaviour on camera triggers consultation duties in many jurisdictions – works councils in much of the EU, GDPR obligations on employment monitoring, and equivalent rules elsewhere. The decisive governance question is what the data may be used for: safety analytics that quietly become individual performance discipline destroy the trust the programme depends on, and workers will work around a system they believe is watching them rather than protecting them.
