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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Brian J. Swift, Woodbury, MN (US);
Andrew W. Long, Woodbury, MN (US);
David R. Stein, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A system includes at least one article of personal protective equipment, one or more industrial devices, an industrial controller device configured to output industrial controller data indicative of one or more attributes of the one or more industrial devices, and a computing device. The computing devices is configured to determine a set of one or more safety rules corresponding to a work environment at the first time and determine a change in an attribute of the one or more attributes of the one or more industrial devices. The computing device is further configured to identify an updated set of one or more worker safety rules corresponding to the work environment at the second time and determine whether the status of at least one article of personal protective equipment satisfies the updated set of one or more worker safety rules. The computing devices is further configured to perform at least one action based on determining whether the at least one article of personal protective equipment satisfies the updated set of one or more worker safety rules.