Personal Protective Equipment Detection: A Deep-Learning-Based Sustainable Approach

Personal protective equipment (PPE) can increase the safety of the worker for sure by reducing the probability and severity of injury or fatal incidents at construction, chemical, and hazardous sites. PPE is widely required to offer a satisfiable safety level not only for protection against the acci...

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Published in:Sustainability 2023-09, Vol.15 (18), p.13990
Main Authors: Ahmed, Mohammed Imran Basheer, Saraireh, Linah, Rahman, Atta, Al-Qarawi, Seba, Mhran, Afnan, Al-Jalaoud, Joud, Al-Mudaifer, Danah, Al-Haidar, Fayrouz, AlKhulaifi, Dania, Youldash, Mustafa, Gollapalli, Mohammed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Artificial intelligence
Construction
Datasets
Deep learning
Detectors
Literature reviews
Localization
Machine vision
Manufacturing
Monitoring systems
Neural networks
Nuclear energy
Personal protective equipment
Protective clothing
Sensors
Workers
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Summary:Personal protective equipment (PPE) can increase the safety of the worker for sure by reducing the probability and severity of injury or fatal incidents at construction, chemical, and hazardous sites. PPE is widely required to offer a satisfiable safety level not only for protection against the accidents at the aforementioned sites but also for chemical hazards. However, for several reasons or negligence, workers may not commit to and comply with the regulations of wearing the equipment, occasionally. Since manual monitoring is laborious and erroneous, the situation demands the development of intelligent monitoring systems to offer the automated real-time and accurate detection of PPE compliance. As a solution, in this study, Deep Learning and Computer Vision are investigated to offer near real-time and accurate PPE detection. The four colored hardhats, vest, safety glass (CHVG) dataset was utilized to train and evaluate the performance of the proposed model. It is noteworthy that the solution can detect eight variate classes of the PPE, namely red, blue, white, yellow helmets, head, person, vest, and glass. A two-stage detector based on the Fast-Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) was trained on 1699 annotated images. The proposed model accomplished an acceptable mean average precision (mAP) of 96% in contrast to the state-of-the-art studies in literature. The proposed study is a potential contribution towards the avoidance and prevention of fatal/non-fatal industrial incidents by means of PPE detection in real-time.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su151813990