Toward a Real-Time Personal Protective Equipment Compliance Control System Based on RFID Technology

Abstract

For many years, companies have been looking for ways to minimize workers’ exposure to security hazards. One way of doing that is by ensuring that workers are at all working times wearing the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) needed for the assigned task. To this end, in this paper, we present in this work, a real-time PPE compliance control system based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology (RTPPECCS). This system gives the possibility to ensure in real time that all workers present on the worksite are compliant with PPE safety policy. The system was developed while keeping in mind that safety systems are usually not stand-alone systems but come as add-ons that work with other management systems such as warehouse management systems (WMS) and enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems.