Get a continuous, comparable view of safety lapses across rigs, terminals, and plants by standardising definitions and using AI on existing CCTV to flag red-zone intrusions, line-of-fire risks, and PPE misses in real time. This 2025 guide shows how to route events into your EHS system of record and validate impact with a focused 90-day rollout.
If you are responsible for HSSE across several rigs, terminals and plants, you already know the question that matters. What is the best way to track safety lapses across multiple oil and gas sites in a way that is continuous, comparable and credible to regulators and the board?
The practical answer is simple to state, even if it takes work to execute. You need three things working together:
1. A shared definition of what a safety lapse is across all sites
2. An AI layer on your existing CCTV to detect unsafe acts in real time
3. Your existing EHS system is the system of record for investigations and actions
In this guide, we focus on that combination and how our AI video analytics platform, Invigilo SafeKey, fits into it using only capabilities we can verify on our own site.
The stakes are not abstract. Recent International Labour Organisation estimates put global work-related deaths at around 2.9 million a year, with hundreds of millions of non-fatal injuries. The oil and gas sector sits in the high-risk part of that picture.. Boards and regulators are moving from “show me your incident rate” to “show me how you are catching unsafe acts and near misses across the whole portfolio”.
Most operators already have:
These are essential, but they are mostly lagging indicators. OSHA’s guidance on leading indicators is clear. Lagging indicators reflect events that have already happened, such as injury rates. Leading indicators tell you whether your safety activities are working before an incident occurs.
At the same time, almost every rig and plant already has extensive CCTV coverage. Without AI, those cameras only come into play after an event. With AI video analytics, the same cameras can detect unsafe acts continuously and feed standardised events into a multi-site view, without asking supervisors to sit in front of screens.
Before you look at technology, you need to agree on what you are tracking.
For multi-site oil and gas operations, a practical definition of “safety lapse” usually covers three layers:
On our product page, we show that Invigilo SafeKey already detects many of these unsafe acts through AI video analytics. Confirmed detections include PPE non-compliance, proximity to energised machinery, line of fire under suspended loads, missing barricades, intrusion into configurable red zones, and work at heights where harness attachment is monitored.
On our oil and gas industry page, we explain how the platform integrates with existing CCTV, tracks unsafe behaviours, crowding and proximity to hazardous machinery, detects early signs of risk and near miss trends, and generates audit-ready reports, heatmaps and safety scores.
When you align your internal lapse taxonomy with these categories, you create a simple rule. Whether an unsafe act is spotted by a supervisor or detected by AI, it lands in the same family of events and can be compared across sites.
If you want a deeper look at how this plays out on a single asset, our article “AI System for Monitoring Safety on Oil Rig Platforms” walks through how an AI safety system monitors rigs with 24/7 detection, alerts and insights. That piece can be your reference when you explain this approach internally.
Digital EHS platforms and incident systems are valuable. They structure investigations, corrective actions and compliance evidence. They become limiting when you expect them to be your only way to track safety lapses across many sites.
There are three common gaps:
First, coverage. These systems rely on people noticing and reporting unsafe acts. In high-tempo operations, many low-level lapses never make it into the system, which means your data is skewed towards serious events.
Second, continuity. Inspections, audits and patrols happen in rounds. Between rounds, behaviour can drift. On a busy rig or terminal, repeated red zone intrusions or unprotected work at height can occur long before the next formal check.
Third, comparability. Free text descriptions and locally defined categories are difficult to roll up. Even small differences in how sites classify and rate events make it hard to build portfolio-level indicators that leadership can trust.
None of this is a reason to abandon EHS systems. It is a reason to feed them with better, more timely data and to standardise categories.
AI video analytics gives you a continuous, structured view of unsafe acts without changing how crews work.
The Invigilo SafeKey platform connects to your existing CCTV or compatible cameras. You do not need a wholesale camera replacement. Once connected, computer vision models analyse live video to detect defined unsafe acts in real time.
From our public product pages, Invigilo SafeKey can today:
Events are logged in a central dashboard with time, camera, zone and classification, and you can download heatmaps, analytics and compliance trends across sites. Invigilo SafeKey also supports real-time notifications through WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and SMS and can trigger sound and visual alerts on site, which makes it easier for supervisors to intervene immediately.
Across industries, our solutions are deployed at more than 100 sites, covering over 2 million square metres and detecting over 50,000 safety lapses, with detection of over 50 safety risks and more than 85 per cent verified detection accuracy. That experience gives you a realistic baseline for performance when you scale across rigs and terminals.
If you want to see how this applies beyond oil and gas before you commit, our guide “How to Track Safety Violations on Construction Sites with Video Analytics” explains the same pattern in construction and can help you brief internal stakeholders.
The best way to track safety lapses across multiple oil and gas sites is to let each system do what it does best and connect them through a simple model.
At the front, Invigilo SafeKey detects unsafe acts and logs them with consistent categories. That gives you a stream of leading indicators across all connected sites.
Your EHS platform remains the system of record for investigations and corrective actions. You define thresholds that decide when an AI event becomes an EHS case. A single PPE miss may remain in the AI dashboard. Repeated line of fire breaches at one crane pad may trigger a formal near-miss entry and corrective actions.
On top of both, you build a portfolio dashboard using a minimal set of common fields: site, zone, task, contractor or team, event type and source. That lets you build leading indicators such as PPE non-compliance per 1,000 exposure hours, red zone intrusions per crane hour or work at height harness violations per shift, alongside traditional lagging indicators like Total Recordable Incident Rate.
OSHA’s leading indicator guidance encourages exactly this pattern. Leading indicators are proactive, preventive measures such as near-miss reports or unsafe act detections. Lagging indicators are outcomes such as injuries. A good programme uses leading indicators to drive change and lagging indicators to measure effectiveness. An AI-enabled multi-site view gives you both in one place.
If you would like help sketching this architecture for your own estate, our team can walk through real examples of SafeKey sitting alongside existing EHS tools and what those dashboards look like in practice.
You do not need to transform every asset at once. A focused 90-day pilot can give you clear evidence to take to leadership.
Pick two or three representative sites, for example, one offshore platform and one terminal. Choose two or three behaviours to focus on, such as red zone intrusions, line of fire on crane operations, and work at height harness use.
Work with our team to connect existing CCTV and map zones. In Invigilo SafeKey, you enable relevant use cases, set severities and assign alert recipients. The aim is to start seeing real detections within days, not months.
Over the first weeks, refine zones and rules to reduce noise. At the same time, agree simple responses for each category. For example, a red zone intrusion triggers a radio call and coaching, while repeated events drive a review of layout or procedures.
After 60 to 90 days, use SafeKey’s heatmaps and compliance trends to compare lapse patterns before and after the pilot period. That gives you a concrete story about what changed and where you still have work to do.
If you would like support designing this pilot, we can adapt our internal playbooks to your asset mix and risk profile and help you prepare a concise proposal for your HSSE and finance stakeholders.
To keep vendor discussions grounded in your reality, focus on questions that relate directly to the multi-site outcome you want. For example:
When you speak with us about Invigilo SafeKey, these are the areas we can help you with. We are comfortable grounding answers in live examples from more than 100 monitored sites and the 50,000 plus safety lapses already detected by our platform.
If you are preparing an internal brief or RFP, it can help to link colleagues to our oil and gas solutions page and our oil rig safety article, so they can see how AI safety monitoring behaves in conditions similar to theirs.
The best way to track safety lapses across multiple oil and gas sites is not to add more forms or more standalone dashboards. It is to put a clear safety lapse model in place, add an AI layer on your existing CCTV to detect unsafe acts in real time, and connect that stream of events to your EHS system and portfolio dashboards.
With Invigilo SafeKey, you can connect to your current cameras, detect over 50 safety risks in real time, receive alerts through channels supervisors already use and review heatmaps, analytics and compliance trends across your sites, including rigs and oil and gas facilities. You keep your existing processes and people, but you give them a continuous, comparable view of safety lapses that is difficult to achieve by manual means.
If you are ready to move beyond delayed reports and isolated incident logs, schedule a 30-minute SafeKey demo call with our team. In that session, we will map your current camera network and risk profile, show live examples of multi-site safety lapse tracking on SafeKey, and outline a focused 90-day pilot across two to three priority sites. You walk away with a concrete, decision-ready multi-site safety visibility plan that your HSSE, operations and finance leaders can review and approve.
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