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Could you reach it with your eyes shut?
The shower is behind six drums
It is 16:00 and it is delivery day. Twenty drums arrive and the only free space in the aisle is the yellow hatching in front of the safety shower. They go there, just for a moment. The next lorry brings twelve more. By the end of the week the shower has a stack in front of it and the handle is out of reach. Nobody did anything wrong: it just filled up.
2 cameras across 2 sectors
This is how you ask for it
«Tell me if anything blocks the safety shower or the way to it for more than ten minutes.»
While nothing happens, this costs nobody a penny. It shows up in the annual audit as an observation, the drums are moved that morning and a fortnight later they are back. The day someone takes a splash, the whole bill falls due at once: every second groping between drums with both eyes shut is tissue that does not come back.
You decide once
It is decided once, and it comes down to three things. Health and safety draws the floor hatching and the aisle leading to it on the image; sets how many minutes something may sit inside it; and says who gets the alert. The sentence reads: if something enters that hatching and is still there after ten minutes, then alert with the picture and keep the video.
The safety shower is the only piece of kit in a plant that gets used with your eyes shut. Whoever reaches it arrives blind, face burning, counting steps from memory with both hands out in front. That is why the yellow hatching on the floor is not decoration: it is the path someone will take who cannot see what is in the way.
And nobody blocks it on purpose. It blocks itself, one drum per delivery day, because it is the only free space in the aisle and because it is always just for a moment. In a month it is a wall. The day someone takes a splash and runs for it, they find the drums by touch. Every second lost pushing things aside is tissue that does not come back. The fifteen seconds saved by whoever left the drums are paid for with thirty years of scarring.
IRIS watches the hatching on the floor and the path leading to it, and speaks up when something stays there longer than you have said. Ten minutes does not bother anyone crossing with a pallet, but it does catch the person who leaves it and walks off. And it arrives today, not at the next audit. The day the shower is needed, it is too late to move the drums.
What changes
Before, an aisle like that was corrected twice a year: at the audit and before a customer visit. In between, the yellow hatching was where things got left, and everybody knew it. Now the area manager gets a picture of the occupied hatching after ten minutes. The rule has not changed: what changed is when it becomes visible.
Where we have seen it
CAM-314The emergency shower is behind a stack of drums
«Tell me if anything blocks the emergency shower or the way to it for more than ten minutes.»
CAM-338The emergency shower is walled in by drums
«Tell me if anybody leaves material inside the yellow hatching around a shower, an eyewash, a hydrant or an extinguisher.»
What it does not do
IRIS does not check whether the shower works, whether it has pressure or when it was last inspected. It only watches whether the hatching on the floor and the path to it are clear.
Water coming out when the handle is pulled is still maintenance’s job, and no camera replaces that inspection. They are two different checks and you need both.
Questions
- Does it alert the moment somebody puts something there?
- No, and that is deliberate. People pass in front of a shower all day, and alerting on every pallet that crosses turns the alert into noise nobody reads. The delay separates two different things: someone walking past and someone putting something down and leaving. Ten minutes is a sensible starting point in a plant aisle; in a quiet area it can be shorter, and on a loading dock stretching it slightly makes sense.
- Does it also cover extinguishers, hydrants and eyewash?
- Yes, and it is usually asked for in one sentence, because the problem is identical: material left inside the yellow hatching of an emergency device. A blocked extinguisher and a blocked shower are discovered the same way, in the same audit and with the same months of delay. Marking the four or five hatched areas in a building takes a while, and after that nobody has to remember to check them again.
- Does IRIS check that the shower actually works?
- No. IRIS watches whether the floor hatching and the path to the shower are clear, and nothing more. Whether that shower has pressure, whether the water comes out tepid or whether the monthly inspection has been done cannot be seen from a camera and remains maintenance’s work. They are two different checks and you need both: an inspected shower you cannot reach is exactly as useful as a broken one.
- Does it alert even when what blocks it is working material?
- Yes, always, and that is precisely the point. The drums blocking a shower are always working material: nobody leaves rubbish there. If the rule allowed exceptions for product or tools, it would be useless, because every real case is exactly that. The yellow hatching is painted so that nothing stands in it, and whatever stands in it gets in the way regardless of whose it is.
A different case every time
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it is a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool does not fit in a box.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Not seeing yours here?
These words are the ones we have built, not the ones IRIS understands. The list falls short on purpose: you ask for it in a sentence, and sentences do not run out. Tell us what is in front of your cameras and we will tell you whether it understands it, or not yet.
And the best part
Stop scrubbing through six hours.Ask what happened and watch only that.
You type what you are looking for in plain words — a white van, a door left open — and the moments it appears come back. What used to take an afternoon now takes minutes.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.