What the system does and does not do
What it does
- Detects people, forklifts and equipment as objects in a frame.
- Measures distances, positions and movement between those objects.
- Flags exposures with a timestamp and the frame that shows it.
- Reports by zone, shift and camera view.
What it does not do
- No facial recognition. Faces are not matched against anything.
- No identity matching against employee records or badge data.
- No per-person tracking across cameras, shifts or days.
- No productivity, pace-of-work or time-on-task measurement.
Why identification is not required
A forklift–pedestrian near-miss is geometric: two objects closer than they should have been, at a known time and place. A missing hard hat or a restricted-zone entry is the same. Position and equipment define the exposure. A name does not improve the flag.
For a works council: the output is exposure counts by location and time, not a file on a person.
What footage is reviewed
In a pilot you choose 3–5 views, usually your highest-risk zones. Only those are analysed. You export footage in batches.
- You select the views. Clearbound does not browse your camera system.
- No live stream in a pilot. Upload is after the fact.
- No integration with network, badge, HR or scheduling systems.
- Do not submit break rooms, locker rooms, medical areas or offices.
How long footage is kept
Uploaded footage is processed on Clearbound’s secure cloud platform. Flagged exposures are retained with their timestamped frames for weekly summaries and the day-45 report.
- Clearbound does not store continuous camera footage. Only short clips of flagged safety events are retained.
- Flagged event clips are automatically deleted after 60 days.
- Event records without video attached, meaning time, category and zone only, are retained for trending, typically for two years, with the exact period agreed before a pilot begins.
- At the end of a pilot, all Clearbound-held data is deleted within three months.
Where to read more
Full data handling: Privacy Policy. Pilot upload and IT (nothing required): existing cameras. Website analytics is separate from video analysis; see the Privacy Policy.