Watch out for safety blind spots
Across logistics, HSE leaders share a familiar frustration: they’re accountable for everything that happens on site, but visibility is limited. viso.ai explores.
NEAR MISSES on the night shift. PPE lapses between rounds. Unsafe shortcuts that appear for a few seconds, then disappear without reporting. Traditional safety systems, from inspections, to audits, and CCTV reviews, were never designed to cover every safety hazard, at every moment, in every area, across every shift.
viso.ai’s recent webinar, “From Blind Spots to Eyes That Never Blink: The HSE Leader’s Playbook for AI Vision”, brought together three experts deeply familiar with this challenge:
- Reece Cherry: HSE Ambassador with 15+ years frontline experience at Kraft Heinz, Reckitt and Yodel
- Chris Royle: Sales Director at viso.ai, supporting enterprise-scale deployments
- Sasha Gatselyuk: Sales Engineer, designing and delivering real-world safety applications
Hosted by Jeremy Michaels, the session explored how AI vision turns blind spots into continuous visibility, without turning safety into surveillance.
For many organisations, injury rates improved significantly over the last decade thanks to training, audits, digital reporting and behaviour-based programmes. But progress has slowed.
It is often the case that teams behave differently when the HSE team is present, control measures are in place, or where they know specific areas are being monitored. As a result, many incidents happen:
- Between shifts, when supervision is lighter
- Between rounds, in areas audits don’t cover
- Between tasks, in the five seconds when someone thinks “just this once”
In one deployment, AI Vision detected 154 near-misses per month, compared to only a handful that at were self-reported. That gap, between perceived risk and actual risk, is exactly where AI Vision delivers value. It reveals the pattern, not just the aftermath, when it comes to occupational safety and health.
