ViPR is set to transform workplace safety with Agentic AI, software architecture that helps predict incidents before they occur.
ViPR’s Agentic AI platform introduces a new model of safety intelligence for mining and other high-risk industries. At its core, ViPR Agentic functions as a hidden layer of autonomous intelligence, continuously scanning the environment to detect patterns and flag emerging hazards.
Rather than relying on human oversight, ViPR Agentic independently operates in real-time, drawing from diverse data streams to anticipate and prevent risks before they escalate into harm. This allows supervisors and management to stay focused on people and operations, while ViPR handles the complex data analysis.
“Instead of a supervisor, manager or safety professional sitting in the office absorbed in historical incident reports to anticipate what might go wrong next, ViPR Agentic AI is doing that work for you in the background” ViPR founder Michael Jones told Safe to Work. “It’s looking forward, not backward, identifying patterns and risks that typically go unnoticed until after an incident occurs – which we call over-the-horizon safety”.
The ViPR system analyses company-specific safety protocols, considers environmental-specific conditions, and runs ‘what-if’ simulations in real-time – building a dynamic understanding outcome pattern detection based on the work environment, task demands, and workforce behaviour.
Jones said the goal is simple: prevent incidents by recognising the warning signs early. That means interpreting signals across the diversity of sites – such as vehicle acceleration, temperature changes, or shifts in worker behaviour – and flagging when conditions begin drifting toward danger – to identify early signs of unwanted events.
“We have exclusion zones, but Agentic AI doesn’t just trigger an alert once you’ve crossed a line,” Jones said. “It applies reasoning to the context, predicting the likelihood of entry based on behaviour, site conditions, and task risk.
“ViPR stops you before you step into danger.”
The system integrates a range of operational factors – fatigue levels, prior shift history, time of day, regulatory requirements, and previous incidents – to build a dynamic and situational risk profile.
“We’re building more than a monitoring tool,” Jones said. “Agentic AI brings together everything from fatigue indicators to humidity, past performance and environmental data to form a live view of behavioural trends and risk intersections.
ViPR Agentic is designed to blend into the background, giving supervisors and safety professionals confidence that real-time risks are being monitored continuously, not just after something goes wrong.
Jones acknowledged that some may worry about over-surveillance, but clarified that the platform doesn’t introduce new tracking. Rather, it interprets data that is already being collected, just more intelligently.
“Most sites already have the sensors, the logs and the systems,” he said. “We’re not adding complexity. We’re using what’s already there and giving it purpose.”
Many organisations still rely on disconnected systems for safety, which can create communication silos. ViPR Agentic helps bridge those silos, consolidating data and translating it into actionable, predictive awareness.
One of the core enablers of this system is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a widely available but often underutilised technology. BLE allows ViPR to track movement, monitor entry into restricted zones, and conduct emergency headcounts, using minimal power and infrastructure.
“The BLE layer is incredibly powerful when you connect it with suitable AI technology,” Jones said. “It becomes more than a tracker; it becomes a sitewide sensing network.”
Integrated with ViPR Agentic, BLE enables seamless, real-time situational awareness. Combined with advanced AI reasoning, the system creates a smarter and more responsive network that supports proactive decision-making in high-risk environments.
ViPR is aiming to meaningfully reduce incidents in high-risk industries by changing how safety information is gathered, interpreted and actioned. With the Agentic prototypes already outperforming expectations, that mission is entering its next phase.
This feature appeared in the July–August edition of Safe to Work.