Most safety problems are visible before they become incidents — an unguarded edge, a blocked walkway, missing fall protection. The trouble is that the person on site is busy doing the work, and a walk-through checklist is easy to rush. A safety inspection in Flaggity analyzes a photo of a work area for hazards and cites each one against safety regulations such as OSHA 29 CFR 1926, so you get a consistent second set of eyes and an audit-ready record in minutes.
Before you start
- Capture the context, not just a close-up. Many hazards depend on the surroundings — edges, access routes, what's overhead.
- AI safety detection is available on Professional and higher plans.
Running the inspection
- 1 Choose New Inspection, then Safety.
- 2 Select the facility the photos belong to.
- 3 Upload photos of the area, equipment, or activity you want checked — up to your plan's per-inspection photo limit.
- 4 Submit. The AI scans for common hazard categories and evaluates them against the relevant safety standards.
- 5 Review the findings.
What it looks for
The AI flags recognizable categories of hazard — for example fall protection, housekeeping and trip hazards, equipment guarding, and personal protective equipment. Each finding carries a severity, a plain-language description of what it saw, and the standard it's cited against, so a finding reads as 'missing guardrail at an open edge — OSHA 29 CFR 1926 fall-protection requirement', not just 'looks unsafe'.
What happens next
High-severity findings usually warrant an NCR so the fix is tracked and verified rather than forgotten. Lower-severity items might be observations you address on the spot and document with a report. Either way, the inspection itself is a timestamped record you can show in an audit or to a client who asks how you manage site safety.
Common questions
Can it inspect any kind of work area? It's tuned for industrial and construction environments — fabrication shops, job sites, plants. The more clearly the photo shows the area, the better the findings.
Does a finding mean I'm being reported to OSHA? No. Flaggity is your internal tool. Nothing is reported anywhere; the citation simply tells you which rule a condition relates to so you can fix it.
What if the AI misses something I can see? You're still the inspector. Add it as an NCR or note it in your report. The AI is there to catch the consistent, obvious hazards reliably, not to remove your judgment.