Can you run a hazard inspection from photos or video of the area?

What the Hazard Inspection workflow does

A hazard inspection, or a mock audit before the real one, usually means walking an area with a clipboard and writing up findings later from memory. The workflow removes that gap. You capture one or more photos or videos of the work area, and Soter analyzes the content frame by frame to surface the items that could be sources of hazards.

The Safety Professional stays in control. Soter suggests the most relevant regulation for your company location and industry, you confirm it or pick another, and for each hazard Soter searches that regulation for the applicable requirement. The output is a Hazard and Compliance Report that sorts every finding into Potential Violations, Warnings, or Compliant.

Where hazard inspections break at scale

Three bottlenecks surface again and again.

1. Findings written up from memory. Hazards spotted on the walk get noted on a clipboard or recalled later, so detail is lost and the report is thin.
2. Regulation lookup eats time. Matching each hazard to the right clause for the jurisdiction and industry is slow manual work, and two assessors often cite it differently.
3. No before-the-audit dry run. Without a fast way to mock-audit an area, gaps stay hidden until a real inspection finds them, when they are far more expensive to fix.

How the workflow runs

1. Upload the footage. Add one or more photos or videos of the work area. Soter analyzes the content frame by frame.
2. Confirm the regulation. Soter suggests the most relevant regulation based on your company location and industry. Confirm it or choose a different one.
3. Identify hazard sources. Soter finds the items in the footage that could be sources of hazards, then for each item identifies the potential hazards and searches the chosen regulation for the applicable requirements.
4. Remove duplicates. Repeated hazards are merged so only unique findings remain.
5. Add context and cost. Soter finds relevant historical accidents and violations and identifies the potential costs tied to each finding.
6. Generate the report. Soter produces the Hazard and Compliance Report, classifying every hazard as a Potential Violation, a Warning, or Compliant for sign-off.

Who uses this workflow

• Safety Professionals running hazard inspections without writing findings up from memory
• Site supervisors doing a mock audit of an area before a real inspection
• Plant safety leads keeping hazard findings consistent across multiple sites
• Insurance loss-control consultants reviewing a site from captured footage on the carrier side

What you get when you sign up

• Photos or video of a work area read frame by frame, no clipboard write-up
• The relevant regulation suggested for your location and industry, with your confirmation
• Each hazard matched to the applicable requirement in that regulation
• Duplicate findings merged, with relevant historical accidents, violations, and potential costs
• A Hazard and Compliance Report that classifies every finding as a Potential Violation, Warning, or Compliant