Insights

Focused answers to specific questions, written to the same sourcing standard as the guide.

• Buying and piloting40 questions to ask AI safety vendors: an RFP checklistA 40-question RFP checklist for AI safety vendors, grouped by fit, accuracy, deployment, privacy, AI governance, security, workflow and commercial terms.
• Buying and pilotingAI safety pilot acceptance criteria: how to define pass and failHow to write pass/fail acceptance criteria for an AI safety pilot: precision, recall, latency, alert load, time to action, sample sizes and a template.
• Privacy and data protectionDPIA for Workplace Video Analytics: A Step-by-Step Template for UK and EU SitesA practical DPIA template for AI safety cameras at UK and EU sites: when GDPR Article 35 applies, what to write in each section, retention, sign-off and review.
• Cameras and infrastructureExisting CCTV Readiness Checklist: Can Your Cameras Run Safety Analytics?A practical checklist to test whether existing CCTV can support AI safety analytics: streams, ONVIF, placement, image quality, network, cybersecurity and privacy.
• Forklift safetyForklift Pedestrian Safety Technology Compared: AI Video, Proximity Tags, Blue Lights and RadarHow AI video, UWB proximity tags, blue warning lights and radar compare for forklift-pedestrian safety: what each detects, who it warns, and where it fails.
• Measuring outcomesLeading indicators for EHS dashboards: which ones are worth trackingWhich leading indicators belong on an EHS dashboard, which to drop, how to pair them with lagging measures, and how to use AI and sensor data without fooling yourself.
• Near missesNear-Miss Detection Explained: What AI Video Counts as a Close CallHow AI video defines a near miss, how proximity and time-to-collision rules work, why counts mislead, and how to write a near-miss definition your site can trust.
• Buying and pilotingSafety technology ROI: building an honest business caseHow to build a safety technology business case that survives finance review: your own cost baseline, full cost of ownership, scenario ranges, break-even tests and vendor claims.
• RegulationThe EU AI Act and Workplace Safety Systems: What Applies and WhenHow the EU AI Act applies to AI safety cameras and wearables: the emotion recognition ban, when systems become high-risk, deployer duties and the post-Omnibus dates.
• Ports and terminalsVehicle-Pedestrian Separation in Port Yards: Technology Options for TerminalsHow container terminals keep people and plant apart: ILO and HSE rules, access control, automated zone interlocks, proximity warning, telematics, AI video.
• BuyingWhat AI Search Tells Buyers About Safety Vendors, and How to Check ItWe asked Google, ChatGPT, Bing Copilot and Claude the questions safety buyers ask. Their shortlists differ, and many answers rest on pages vendors wrote about rivals.
• BuyingWhat AI Video Safety Vendors Publish for Buyers: A Public Evidence CheckWe checked the public websites of eight AI video safety vendors for security pages, data agreements, pricing, case studies and accuracy methods. Here is what we found.