Draw The PPE Area And Hazard Areas

Basic Safety Guard checks PPE only inside a camera’s PPE area, and raises an alert when someone enters a hazard area. You draw both in step 3 of the camera flow (Add a Camera and Draw). The checklist beside the picture asks for:

• The PPE area (required): outside it nobody is checked.
• Hazard areas (optional): areas where nobody may enter, or only authorised workers.

Step 1: Draw The PPE Area

1. Select Add a zone.
2. Click the corners of the area on the picture, around the floor where people work, then select Finish the shape.
3. Set the zone type to PPE area.
4. Give it a name, for example “Paint shop”. Statistics and alerts use it. Zones of the same type and name on several cameras of a site count as one area.
5. Choose where a person is measured: The feet when people are seen whole, The centre when the camera is close and their feet leave the bottom of the picture.

Step 2: Draw A Hazard Area

1. Select Add a zone again and click the corners of the dangerous area, for example a spray booth or a crane’s swing area. Select Finish the shape.
2. Set the zone type to Hazard area and give it a name.
3. Who may enter is Nobody at first: anyone entering raises a Hazard area entered alert.

Step 3: Let Only Authorised Workers In

Demo data.

1. Set Who may enter to Authorised workers only.
2. Tick the worker groups allowed in. The owner makes the groups in the face database.

Authorised workers are recognised by their face, so this needs face recognition on the camera: the owner turns on worker accountability under System, Privacy, with the workers’ consent. Until then nobody is recognised, so everyone in the area raises the alert. Someone whose face has not matched yet gets about 5 seconds before the Not recognised alert.

Step 4: Check The Checklist And Save

1. Both items of the checklist are ticked.
2. The shapes list names each zone; select one to change it.

Then select Next: review and Save the camera. The camera checks PPE in the new areas at once.

Watch The Drawing