INDUSTRY
Building materials
Building material distribution involves a lot of moving risk: forklifts, trucks, customers and tradies. These risks live in crossings, loading zones, and other high-traffic areas.
With inviol, you can turn near-misses into actionable alerts with safety coaching that sticks.
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Why choose inviol
Keep people safe on and off site with truck cameras.
Make loading zones safer.
Consistent multi-site reporting that highlights where to focus.
Works with any existing CCTV cameras.
What inviol detects in building materials environments
inviol’s detectors are configured to match the specific risks of your yards, branches and loading areas.
Pedestrian-vehicle proximity
Detects when customers, workers or visitors come too close to forklifts, trucks or other moving vehicles in yards and loading areas. Particularly important in building materials, where non-employees are frequently on site during operating hours.
Loading zone activity
Monitors truck loading and unloading zones for unsafe interactions, including during overhead crane operations, side-loading and manual handling of long or heavy materials.
Vehicle speed
Tracks forklift and vehicle speeds across defined areas of the yard, flagging when thresholds are exceeded in high-traffic or customer-facing zones.
PPE compliance
Spots missing hard hats, high-vis vests and other required PPE in defined areas, logged with video footage for coaching follow-up.
Keeping your yards and sites safe to
work in with inviol
Empower teams
with real-time alerts and visibility.
Reduce risk
within weeks of implementation.
Better operations
the safest of working is the most productive way of working.
Automate your toolbox meetings
Cut the noise
Deliver right events to the right people
Focus on what matters
Automate your toolbox meetings
Cut the noise
Deliver right events to the right people
Focus on what matters
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Safety in building materials distribution
Building materials sites bring together a mix of risks that most warehouses don’t have to manage. Forklifts are moving long, heavy and often awkward loads through yards where staff, delivery drivers and customers collecting orders are all sharing the same space. Trucks are constantly arriving, loading and departing. Many branches operate a trade counter or drive-through yard where customers come on site in their own vehicles to pick up materials, adding another layer of unpredictable traffic alongside forklifts and pedestrians. Branches often have open-air yards alongside indoor storage, creating varied conditions and sightlines. And the pace picks up further during seasonal peaks, when demand for materials surges and temporary or casual workers come on site.
These are environments where pedestrian-vehicle interactions, loading zone activity and traffic management are daily safety challenges. Most building materials operators already have strong safety practices in place, but the sheer volume of vehicle and pedestrian movements makes it difficult for any team to observe every interaction across every part of the site. Computer vision AI extends that existing oversight by monitoring the areas you already have cameras covering, around the clock, and flagging the near-misses and complacent behaviours that would otherwise go unseen.
AI device & camera installed on a truck or in a warehouse
Custom H&S policies configured
Camera monitored 24/7 in real time
AI identifies policy breaches
Notifications sent to appropriate people
Coach and train the team in our platform
Track and analyse all the data with our detailed reporting
How it works
How it works
AI device & camera installed on a truck or in a warehouse
Custom H&S policies configured
Camera monitored 24/7 in real time
AI identifies policy breaches
Notifications sent to appropriate people
Coach and train the team in our platform
Track and analyse all the data with our detailed reporting
What customers say
about inviol
“The kicker, it reduced our Health & Safety risk by 60% in just two months!”
Graham Nelson — Head of Continuous Improvement
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“inviol has changed the H&S conversation. I don't know how I'd do my job without it”
Sajal Saha — Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
“80% reduction of risk that involves vehicles & plant machinery on site.”
Tracey Crookston — Branch Manager, New Lynn
“It's a system that
helps us understand
what good looks like”
Rex Middelbeek — GM Safety & Wellbeing
