Argus Site Intel · real-time risk management — OSHA compliance monitoring
Argus flies your jobsite, scores every work zone and worker against OSHA 29 CFR 1926 in real time, and alerts your safety team in seconds — drone vision, on-site AI and a deterministic rule engine in one system that cuts violations, injuries and sick days by 33%.
33% fewer violations, injuries and sick days · alerts in under a minute · 24/7 autonomous coverage · OSHA 29 CFR 1926 rule engine
Autonomous drone patrols stream stabilized live video of every active work zone to an on-site edge AI while recording 4K evidence onboard. On-device AI identifies every worker, PPE state, posture and zone breach in real time and scores the risk of each hazard. The OSHA rule engine ranks each violation by severity and pushes an immediate, acknowledgeable alert to the safety officer — with the video clip attached.
Argus turns your site plan into typed hazard zones — crane swing radius, trench interior, haul roads and vehicle routes, excavation edges, active equipment zones, no-go polygons — and continuously assesses every worker's exposure inside them. Severity-ranked alerts arrive in seconds, every step is documented, and uncertain calls are routed to human review, never guessed.
The rule engine encodes OSHA 29 CFR 1926 directly — 1926.100 head protection, 1926.501(b)(1) fall protection at unprotected sides and edges, 1926.501(b)(4) floor openings, 1926.501(c) falling objects and 1926.451(g) scaffold fall protection — plus site-policy zone rules such as pedestrian and vehicle-route segregation. Every verdict carries the standard or site policy it enforces: a citation-ready compliance record with time-stamped video evidence.
A post-walk report shows what the site looked like; Argus shows what happened. Periodic 360° platforms send one person out on a scheduled walk — the leading one recommends 15–20 minutes, then analyses the upload about 14 hours later on average — and one such walk samples just 3.1–4.2% of an eight-hour shift. Argus assesses risk while the work is happening, pushes a severity-ranked alert in under a minute, and keeps 20 seconds of evidence before and 20 seconds after every violation — the approach, the exposure and what happened next — with the worker tracked, the location and time recorded, and the OSHA rule cited. The post-walk alternative is one 360° frame, analysed about 14 hours later — and only if the walker passed that spot at that moment.
Roughly 40% of common serious U.S. construction citation activity is event-dependent — the evidence exists mainly while a worker, vehicle or load is interacting. That figure is an Argus engineering classification of 19,589 common serious Federal OSHA construction citation items (FY2025) by the kind of evidence each requirement needs: roughly 35% persistent conditions a walk can catch, roughly 42% event-dependent, and about 23% administrative or nonvisual requirements no camera establishes alone. It is not an OSHA classification and not an Argus detection rate. Periodic walks remain effective for persistent conditions; Argus is an additional observation layer, not a replacement for competent HSE staff, formal inspections, engineering controls or environmental monitoring.
Cutting violations, injuries and sick days by 33% compounds — your Experience Modification Rate (EMR) drops, your workers' compensation premiums follow, and your bids clear the EMR screens general contractors read first. Robust safety reporting — daily safety logs, compliance rates and time-stamped evidence — gives insurers and brokers proof of risk control at renewal.
The same platform delivers digital site mapping, a versioned digital twin of your site, construction progress tracking from recurring drone passes, and BIM integration for better alignment and detection — one system for the whole picture of your site. Argus integrates with Procore and other construction software, with exports and an open API for the rest of your stack.
Argus Site Intel is an AI construction site safety monitoring platform. Autonomous drone patrols and fixed cameras feed an on-site AI that detects workers, PPE and hazards; a deterministic rule engine assesses risk against OSHA 29 CFR 1926 and site policy, and pushes immediate, evidence-backed alerts to your safety team.
Real-time risk management closes the gap between hazard and response. Argus watches every construction zone around the clock, ranks each violation by severity, and alerts in seconds — so unprotected edges, missing PPE and zone breaches are corrected before they become injuries and lost workdays. That steady coaching loop is what drives the overall 33% reduction in violations, injuries and sick days.
Workers' compensation premiums are scaled by your Experience Modification Rate (EMR), which is driven by your claims history. Fewer injuries mean a lower EMR and lower premiums — and Argus's robust safety reporting, from daily safety logs to compliance rates and time-stamped evidence, gives your broker and insurer documented proof of risk control at renewal.
Argus encodes OSHA 29 CFR 1926 construction standards as data-driven rules — including 1926.100 head protection, 1926.501(b)(1) fall protection at unprotected sides and edges, 1926.501(b)(4) floor openings, 1926.501(c) falling objects and 1926.451(g) scaffold fall protection — plus site-policy zone rules such as pedestrian and vehicle-route segregation (aligned with 1926.601(b)(4)) and your own site policies. Rules update like data, with no model retraining.
Seconds. Detection, risk assessment and rule evaluation run on-site at the edge, and severity-ranked alerts land on the safety officer's screen with a video clip attached — under a minute from hazard to acknowledgeable alert.
Periodic 360° capture platforms record scheduled walks and analyse them after upload — the leading platform recommends a 15–20 minute walk and publishes an average turnaround of about 14 hours for walk analysis. One such walk samples 3.1–4.2% of an eight-hour shift: enough to catch persistent conditions such as missing guardrails, uncovered openings and ladder setup, but blind to what happens between walks. Argus assesses risk live, alerts in under a minute, and keeps 20 seconds of evidence before and 20 seconds after every violation — the approach, the exposure and what happened next — with the worker tracked and the rule cited. The two are complementary: Argus is an additional observation layer, not a replacement for inspections or competent HSE staff.
In an Argus engineering review of 19,589 common serious Federal OSHA construction citation items (FY2025), roughly 42% were event-dependent — the evidence exists mainly while a worker, vehicle, tool or load is interacting — while roughly 35% were persistent conditions a scheduled walk can catch and roughly 23% were administrative or nonvisual requirements that no camera establishes alone. That is a classification of what kind of evidence each requirement needs, not an OSHA classification and not an Argus detection rate.
No — Argus is a decision-support and warning tool, not a protective device. It gives competent persons continuous eyes on every zone and defensible documentation, and routes uncertain calls to human review instead of guessing. It never uses facial recognition; workers are anonymous track IDs.
Yes. Argus integrates with Procore and other project-management and safety systems, so alerts, reports and evidence land in the workflows your team already uses. BIM integration overlays your model on the safety map, sharpening alignment and detection, and exports plus an open API cover the rest of your stack.
Safety is the core, but the same platform delivers digital site mapping, a versioned digital twin of your site, construction progress tracking from recurring drone passes, BIM integration, and connections to Procore and the rest of your stack — one system for site intelligence.
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