Smart Innovators: Video Analytics For Safety

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Executive Summary

Amid rising pressure to reduce serious injuries and strengthen proactive risk prevention, video analytics has become a high‑impact technology for EHS, operations and IT leaders. This report provides a benchmark of 10 video analytics vendors focused on core safety applications, evaluating their strengths across five key capabilities: PPE detection, behavioural safety, unsafe conditions, area controls and vehicle safety. It also assesses five technical differentiators shaping vendor performance: configurability, privacy and security, detection accuracy, systems integration and analytics. EHS professionals and IT leads can use this report to assess solution maturity, compare vendor capabilities, explore emerging innovations such as vision language models (VLMs) and AI agents, and guide future technology selection. Video analytics vendors can leverage the insights from the report to evaluate their competitive positioning and understand evolving buyer needs.
Summary for decision-makers
Firms confront safety blind spots with real-time video intelligence
EHS leaders turn to video analytics as traditional safety models struggle to keep pace
Strategic partnerships and investment injections reshape the competitive landscape for video analytics vendors
Introducing the video analytics market for safety applications
Understanding the EHS video analytics vendor landscape
Evaluated firms and selection criteria
Video analytics for safety centres on five core capabilities and five technical capabilities
Next‑generation AI capabilities drive vendor differentiation
Figure 1. Video analytics market activity 2024-26
Figure 2. EHS video analytics vendor landscape
Figure 3. Safety-focused video analytics: categories and definitions
Figure 4. Video analytics for safety: capabilities assessment
Figure 5. AI enhanced computer vision safety workflow

About the Authors

Brittany Sayers

Brittany Sayers

Senior Analyst

Brittany is a Senior Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in EHSQ software and emerging technologies. She leverages her EHS practitioner experience in EHS data analysis and unde...

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Nathan Goldstein

Nathan Goldstein

Senior Manager

Nathan is a Senior Manager at Verdantix, specializing in EHS software and the convergence of sustainability, EHS and operational risk. He leads research that helps corporate d...

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