Forklift and warehouse safety monitoring on existing CCTV
A forklift and a person in the same aisle is the classic serious-injury risk in warehousing. The near misses that lead up to it happen every shift, and almost none of them get reported. SafeKey turns every dock and aisle camera you already own into continuous monitoring, with alerts in under a second.
The near misses nobody reports
A serious forklift incident almost never comes out of nowhere. It sits at the tip of an iceberg. Underneath it are hundreds of conflicts that ended half a second early: a truck taking a rack-end corner faster than the aisle allows, a picker cutting through a vehicle lane because it saves forty metres, a driver carrying a pallet high enough to hide the path ahead. Each one resolves itself, nobody writes it up, and the pattern stays invisible until the day it does not resolve.
The reporting gap is not a discipline problem. Nobody was hurt, everyone is mid-shift, and logging a near miss can feel like informing on a colleague. Even a well-run behavioural safety programme captures a small fraction of what actually happens on the floor.
Your cameras already see all of it. The dome over the dock, the bullet camera down the aisle, the wide view of the charging bay: they record every conflict, every day. What has been missing is something that watches those feeds continuously and turns what it sees into evidence. SafeKey runs 60+ computer vision models covering 40+ risk types on those same streams, so the conflicts below the waterline finally get counted.
In warehouse deployments, six patterns account for most of the serious risk:
Speed, separation and zones, set per camera
SafeKey applies rules to each camera view, not one blanket setting for the whole site. A travel aisle gets a speed limit calibrated to that view. A pick zone gets a pedestrian exclusion rule during vehicle movements. The dock apron gets a vehicle-person proximity threshold that reflects how close is genuinely too close on that stretch of floor.
Speed zones flag any forklift above the limit you set for the area, whether that is 8 km/h in an open aisle or walking pace beside a packing bench. Exclusion zones fire the moment a person steps into space reserved for vehicles, or a vehicle enters space reserved for people. Proximity rules track both at once and alert when the distance between them closes past your threshold.
Every rule can differ by area and by shift, so night receiving does not inherit the rules of daytime picking. Alerts go out in under a second, each one carrying the clip that triggered it.
Runs on the cameras you already have
There is nothing to bolt onto the fleet. No cameras on the trucks, no wearables on the pickers, no beacons on the racking. SafeKey connects to the fixed CCTV that already overlooks your docks and aisles: any camera that produces an RTSP stream, which covers almost every network camera installed in the past decade.
Processing runs at the edge, on a server inside your facility, so footage does not need to leave site to be analysed. On-premise and hybrid options cover corporate data residency requirements, and the platform carries long-standing ISO 27001 certification with GDPR and PDPA compliance. There is no facial recognition: the system detects conditions and behaviours, never identities.
A standard site is live within 24 hours of camera access. Alerts reach the people who can act on them inside the tools they already use, and a daily digest gives shift managers the pattern view without another dashboard to log into.
Any RTSP camera
Dock domes, aisle bullets, PTZ units: if it streams RTSP, it connects. No new cabling for standard deployments.
Live within 24 hours
A standard site goes from camera access to live detection in a day, not a quarter.
Edge, on-premise or hybrid
AI runs on site so footage stays local, with deployment models that meet data residency requirements in every region we operate.
Alerts where your team works
WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and email in real time, plus a daily digest for shift managers.
Measured on a real warehouse floor
A global logistics operator ran SafeKey across its warehouse floor risks on existing CCTV. Incidents fell by 80%, and the number was measured, not projected.
Numbers like these hold up because every alert is backed by evidence. Each detection becomes a timestamped clip, so a supervisor reviews thirty seconds of footage instead of debating what happened. Week over week, the pattern view shows which aisle produces the conflicts, which shift runs hot, and which subcontractor needs a different conversation. Toolbox talks stop being generic and start being about Tuesday, aisle nine, 14:40.
Forklift safety monitoring, answered
Do we need cameras on the forklifts themselves?
Can it measure forklift speed from CCTV?
Does it work in cold stores or low light?
Does it identify individual drivers?
How fast are alerts?
What does a proof of concept look like?
See it on your own dock cameras
A proof of concept on a few cameras, live within 24 hours of camera access. Agreed criteria, measured results, then you decide.