# Safety Tech Review > Independent, sourced guidance on AI video analytics, wearables, sensors and EHS software for safer workplaces. Written for EHS, HSE and operations leaders. Independent and sourced. Every chapter cites its sources and shows a last-updated date. ## The Safety Technology Guide, Part 1: History - [From Canaries to Compliance: How Workplace Safety Was Built Before Digital](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/from-canaries-to-compliance): How workplace safety developed before software: mine canaries, factory inspectors, Heinrich and Bird's triangles, OSHA 1970, the UK HSWA 1974 and the hierarchy of controls. - [The Rise of Digital EHS: From Paper Logs to Safety Software](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/rise-of-digital-ehs): How EHS moved from paper logs to software: OSHA recordkeeping, ISO 45001, leading vs lagging indicators, the vendors that built EHS software and the SaaS and mobile era. - [Computer Vision Comes to Work: From the Lab to the Shop Floor](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/computer-vision-comes-to-work): How computer vision reached workplace safety: CCTV and IP cameras, ImageNet and AlexNet in 2012, deep learning, YOLO, edge AI hardware and the first AI safety startups. ## The Safety Technology Guide, Part 2: Safety technology today - [How AI Video Safety Analytics Works](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/how-ai-video-safety-works): How AI video safety analytics turns CCTV into safety events: cameras, edge vs cloud processing, models, alert logic, accuracy, false positives and human review. - [Core Use Cases for AI Safety Technology](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/safety-use-cases): Core AI safety use cases explained: PPE, vehicle-pedestrian separation, exclusion zones, near misses, ergonomics, slips and trips, fire, smoke and housekeeping. - [Wearables, Sensors and Proximity Systems](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/wearables-and-sensors): How safety wearables, gas and heat monitors, ergonomic sensors and forklift proximity systems work, what the evidence shows, and how they compare with AI video. - [EHS Software, Data and Integrations](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/ehs-software-and-data): What EHS software does, how safety data is structured and reported, how video and wearable data integrate, and what to check in AI features and data governance. ## The Safety Technology Guide, Part 3: Industries - [Ports, Terminals and Maritime](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/ports-and-maritime): Port and terminal safety in 2026: injury data, quay crane and yard vehicle hazards, HSE, ILO and OSHA rules, and how AI video and proximity tech are used. - [Warehousing, Distribution and Logistics](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/warehousing-and-logistics): Warehouse safety in 2026: BLS, HSE and EU injury data, forklift and loading dock hazards, OSHA 1910.178 and the warehousing NEP, and how AI video is used. - [Manufacturing and process industries](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/manufacturing): Injury data, main hazards, rules and safety technology in manufacturing: machine guarding, lockout/tagout, forklifts, ergonomics, AI video and wearables. - [Construction and infrastructure](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/construction): Construction injury data from BLS, HSE and Eurostat, the Fatal Four hazards, CDM 2015 and OSHA rules, and how AI video, drones, BIM and wearables are used on sites. ## The Safety Technology Guide, Part 4: Buying and governance - [Safety technology vendors: categories, differences and a neutral comparison](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/vendor-landscape): How safety technology vendors split into five categories, how they differ on deployment and data, recent funding signals, and how to read vendor claims. - [Privacy, law, ethics and worker trust](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/privacy-law-and-workers): How GDPR, UK ICO monitoring guidance, DPIAs, the EU AI Act after the 2026 Digital Omnibus, BIPA, CCPA and works councils apply to AI safety cameras and wearables. - [Buying and piloting safety technology](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/buying-and-piloting): A practical buyer's guide to AI safety technology: business case, stakeholders, RFP questions, pilot design, acceptance criteria, contract terms and a checklist. - [Measuring outcomes honestly](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/measuring-outcomes): How to measure whether safety technology works: leading vs lagging indicators, baselines, denominators, attribution, regression to the mean and honest reporting. ## The Safety Technology Guide, Part 5: The future - [Cutting-Edge Safety Technology: Vision-Language Models, Physical AI, Robotics and EHS Copilots](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/cutting-edge): What vision-language models, physical AI, digital twins, robots, exoskeletons, autonomous yard trucks, drones and EHS copilots can and cannot yet do for safety. - [Safety Technology Outlook to 2030: Regulation, Insurance, Markets and the Workforce](https://safetytechreview.com/guide/outlook-2030): Outlook to 2030 for workplace safety technology: EU AI Act and machinery rules, OSHA heat rulemaking, insurance trends, funding signals, skills and three scenarios. ## Insights - [40 questions to ask AI safety vendors: an RFP checklist](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/questions-to-ask-ai-safety-vendors): A 40-question RFP checklist for AI safety vendors, grouped by fit, accuracy, deployment, privacy, AI governance, security, workflow and commercial terms. - [AI safety pilot acceptance criteria: how to define pass and fail](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/ai-safety-pilot-acceptance-criteria): How to write pass/fail acceptance criteria for an AI safety pilot: precision, recall, latency, alert load, time to action, sample sizes and a template. - [DPIA for Workplace Video Analytics: A Step-by-Step Template for UK and EU Sites](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/dpia-for-workplace-video-analytics): A 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. - [Existing CCTV Readiness Checklist: Can Your Cameras Run Safety Analytics?](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/existing-cctv-readiness-checklist): A practical checklist to test whether existing CCTV can support AI safety analytics: streams, ONVIF, placement, image quality, network, cybersecurity and privacy. - [Forklift Pedestrian Safety Technology Compared: AI Video, Proximity Tags, Blue Lights and Radar](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/forklift-pedestrian-safety-technology-compared): How 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. - [Leading indicators for EHS dashboards: which ones are worth tracking](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/leading-indicators-for-ehs-dashboards): Which 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-Miss Detection Explained: What AI Video Counts as a Close Call](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/near-miss-detection-explained): How 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. - [Safety technology ROI: building an honest business case](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/safety-technology-roi-honest-business-case): How 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. - [The EU AI Act and Workplace Safety Systems: What Applies and When](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/eu-ai-act-workplace-safety-systems): How 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. - [Vehicle-Pedestrian Separation in Port Yards: Technology Options for Terminals](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/port-yard-vehicle-pedestrian-separation): How container terminals keep people and plant apart: ILO and HSE rules, access control, automated zone interlocks, proximity warning, telematics, AI video. - [What AI Search Tells Buyers About Safety Vendors, and How to Check It](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/what-ai-search-tells-buyers): We 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. - [What AI Video Safety Vendors Publish for Buyers: A Public Evidence Check](https://safetytechreview.com/insights/what-vendors-publish-for-buyers): We 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. ## Vendor directory - [Arcure (Blaxtair)](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/arcure-blaxtair): French company that makes Blaxtair, a vehicle-mounted 3D camera with AI that detects pedestrians around forklifts, loaders and other industrial machines and warns the operator. - [Axis Communications](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/axis-communications): Swedish network camera maker, owned by Canon since 2015, whose cameras can run on-device analytics such as AXIS Object Analytics and third-party safety applications. - [Benchmark Gensuite](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/benchmark-gensuite): Ohio-based EHS, quality and sustainability software provider that began inside General Electric and now sells a cloud platform with embedded AI called Genny. - [Buddywise](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/buddywise): Swedish startup whose computer vision software flags safety risks from existing industrial cameras, with cloud and on-site edge deployment options. - [Cority](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/cority): Toronto-based EHS, occupational health, quality and sustainability software provider, founded as Medgate and majority owned by Thoma Bravo since 2019. - [EHS Insight](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/ehs-insight): Houston-based cloud EHS software for small and mid-sized organizations, covering audits, compliance, incidents, training and related modules. - [Enablon (Wolters Kluwer)](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/enablon): French EHS, operational risk and ESG software platform for large asset-intensive companies, owned by Wolters Kluwer since 2016. - [Everguard.ai](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/everguard-ai): Irvine-based company whose Sentri360 platform combines computer vision, sensors, wearables and edge computing to monitor hazards in heavy industry, starting with steel mills. - [Intelex](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/intelex): Toronto-based provider of environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) management software, owned by Fortive since 2019. - [Intenseye](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/intenseye): Computer vision safety platform that analyzes existing CCTV for unsafe acts and conditions and, since 2025, sells edge hardware that can act on equipment. - [Inviol](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/inviol): Auckland-based company whose software applies computer vision to existing CCTV to flag forklift, pedestrian and PPE risks and turn clips into coaching material. - [Kinetic](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/kinetic): Former industrial wearables company, now a workers' compensation insurance provider, that is retiring its Reflex posture wearable by October 2027. - [Linde Material Handling (Safety Guard)](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/linde-material-handling): German forklift maker in the KION Group whose Linde Safety Guard uses ultra-wideband radio to warn truck drivers and pedestrians wearing tags of each other's presence. - [Protex AI](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/protex-ai): Irish company whose software runs computer vision on a site's existing CCTV to detect vehicle, PPE, ergonomic and area-access risks. - [RoboK](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/robok): University of Cambridge spinout whose SiteLens software applies computer vision to existing CCTV to flag pedestrian-vehicle, PPE and exclusion zone risks at UK industrial sites. - [SafetyCulture](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/safetyculture): Australian company behind the iAuditor inspection app, now selling a workplace operations platform branded Mitti by SafetyCulture. - [Samsara](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/samsara): Publicly listed connected operations company best known for fleet telematics and AI dash cameras, with site video and worker safety features. - [Spot AI](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/spot-ai): AI camera and video platform for physical operations that markets Video AI Agents for safety, security and operational use cases. - [StrongArm Technologies](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/strongarm): New York company that sells the SafeWork wearable sensor and software for ergonomic risk monitoring and real-time movement feedback. - [Triax Technologies (Invixium)](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/triax-technologies): Connected worker company whose Spot-r system uses wearable tags and a site mesh network for worker location, fall alerts and digital mustering, owned by Invixium since 2024. - [VelocityEHS](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/velocityehs): Chicago-based EHS and sustainability software provider with strong chemical management and industrial ergonomics offerings, backed by CVC and Partners Group. - [Verkada](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/verkada): Cloud-managed physical security company selling cameras, access control, sensors and alarms, with AI features that include PPE and safety alerts. - [Visionify](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/visionify): Denver-based vendor of computer vision safety software that runs on existing IP cameras with edge processing and on-premises data storage. - [Voxel](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/voxel): San Francisco company whose computer vision software turns existing IP cameras into a safety and operational risk monitoring system. - [viAct](https://safetytechreview.com/vendors/viact): Hong Kong company offering AI video analytics for construction and heavy industry safety, using existing CCTV and edge computing. ## Reference - 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