Heavy traffic, distracted drivers and the occasional wandering lion. These are just a few of the risks our terminal workers could face today. Our terminals are sprawling and fast-paced operations, and ensuring the safety of our team - and those within our duty of care - is a commitment that goes beyond policy compliance to our culture.
We’re tapping some exciting AI-tech to help make that a reality.
The vision: from reactive to proactive safety
Across six select terminals, we’ve piloted and continue to evolve a programme of cutting-edge AI safety solutions, designed to turn information into action and meaningful culture change.
We’ve deployed a system built on computer vision and AI language models to raise safety standards. This technology goes beyond simply recording incidents; it actively works to predict and prevent them. By analysing real-time CCTV footage and detecting potential risks like unsafe proximity to vehicles, speeding or improper personal protective equipment usage, the system equips supervisors with clear, actionable, data-backed insights.
Siddhartha Kulkarni, Tech Platform Lead at APM Terminals says: “In safety, technology has traditionally been used to reactively look at ‘what went wrong?’ Our goal is to create a proactive alert ecosystem that flags safety risks and helps us prevent them from turning into actual accidents.” (....)