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

Mohammed Imran Basheer Ahmed, Linah Saraireh, Atta Rahman (), Seba Al-Qarawi, Afnan Mhran, Joud Al-Jalaoud, Danah Al-Mudaifer, Fayrouz Al-Haidar, Dania AlKhulaifi, Mustafa Youldash and Mohammed Gollapalli
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Mohammed Imran Basheer Ahmed: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Linah Saraireh: Department of Management Information System, College of Business Administration, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Atta Rahman: Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Seba Al-Qarawi: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Afnan Mhran: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Joud Al-Jalaoud: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Danah Al-Mudaifer: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Fayrouz Al-Haidar: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Dania AlKhulaifi: Department of Management Information System, College of Business Administration, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Mustafa Youldash: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Gollapalli: Department of Computer Information System, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; PPE detection; computer vision; object detection; mAP score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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