Applications / Safety
Face Cover & Mask Detection
Detects whether respirators, face shields, welding masks or face coverings are worn in the zones and during the tasks that require them.
See it in action
Respirator and face-protection detection at the task
What it detects
Harvested from the computer-vision use-case columns of the Q3 industry papers. Every item below is a rule you can switch on, tune per zone and report on.
Respirator presence
Flags people in paint booths, solvent stores and chemical-decanting areas without the respirator the zone calls for.
SCBA and breathing apparatus
Identifies entry to confined spaces, tank interiors and H₂S zones where self-contained breathing apparatus is required.
Welding masks
Detects welding and cutting activity carried out without a welding mask down at hot-work stations.
Face shields
Flags grinding, cutting, abrasive blasting and chemical handling performed without a face shield in place.
Hygiene masks and coverings
Covers food-handling, clean-room and clinical zones where masks and glove-change procedures form part of the zone rule.
Dust protection during turnarounds
Surfaces missing dust masks during high-particulate campaigns, demolition and shutdown work.
Zone-specific face PPE
Verifies the correct face protection for a given area rather than simply detecting that something is worn.
Entry to a controlled area
Checks face PPE at the threshold, so a violation is flagged before the person is deep inside the zone.
Where it applies
The sub-sectors below are the ones the Q3 industry papers name for this detection. Each links to the industry hub.
In Oil & Gas
Respirator compliance in refineries where H₂S and hydrocarbon vapours are present. Dust protection on construction sites and during turnarounds.
How it works
01
Runs on the cameras you already have
Inference happens at the edge on your existing CCTV and IP streams. No new camera estate, no video leaving site, no cloud round-trip in the detection loop.
02
Thresholds and zones you configure
Draw the zone, set the rule, set the dwell, count and confidence thresholds. Rules differ by area, shift and task, because sites do.
03
Evidence, not just alerts
Every event is logged with camera, zone, timestamp and a clip, so the record is reviewable afterwards and usable in a corrective action.
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Integrates with what you already run
Events push into your VMS, alerting and reporting stack through Fogsphere Manager, with dashboards broken down by area, shift and crew.
Risk & control objective
Respiratory and face protection is task-specific and area-specific: the requirement in a paint booth is not the requirement at a welding bay, and neither is the requirement at a confined-space entry point. Hazardous-substance and chemical-exposure controls, DSEAR and ATEX-style explosive-atmosphere rules, and confined-space procedures all attach a different face-PPE set to a different piece of ground.
The control objective is therefore about the match, not the presence. A rule that only asks whether a mask is worn produces a compliance figure that means very little. A rule that asks whether the correct face protection is worn for that zone and that task produces a figure an HSE lead can defend.
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See Face Cover & Mask running on your own cameras
Bring a camera stream and a zone. We will show you what the model surfaces on your site, not on a demo reel.