A win for active safety
On Thursday 2 July 2026, at the Pendle Business Awards ceremony at The Fence Gate, Dynamic Safety Ltd was named winner of the Innovation Award, sponsored by D&M Creative Limited. The award recognises SAIFI, our vision-based active safety system, which was shortlisted alongside Axes to Ashes Ltd and GB Integrated Systems Limited when the finalists were announced at Pendle Connects on 3 June.
Tom Davies and Paul Strickland collected the award on behalf of the whole team. It is the first industry recognition SAIFI has received since it moved from a workshop prototype to a system running on live industrial sites, and it came from judges in the same town it was built in.
What the judges were recognising
Most cameras on an industrial site are passive. They record, and the footage is pulled once something has already gone wrong. That is evidence after the fact: useful for an investigation, useless for the person who was in the path of a reversing vehicle. SAIFI works the other way round. It watches in real time, recognises a hazard as it forms, and triggers a physical response on site.
That response is not another alert added to a supervisor's pile. It is an action: a barrier that drops, a gate that closes, a warning projected onto the floor, an alarm, an access-control lock. The system reads vehicle-pedestrian conflicts, PPE non-compliance and exclusion-zone breaches, and acts on the ones that matter before the incident lands. The Innovation category is recognising that shift, from recording an event to intervening in it.
Innovation Award winner
Pendle Business Awards 2026
2 July 2026, The Fence Gate
Ceremony
Real time
Detection to physical intervention
Why it matters beyond Pendle
An award does not stop a forklift. What the recognition does do is confirm that a safety system designed and built in a Lancashire mill town stands up to scrutiny from people whose job is to judge whether an innovation is real. For a SHEQ director weighing up whether vision AI belongs in a board paper, that is a small but useful data point: the approach has been examined, and it holds.
The bigger point is the one the judges picked up on. UK enforcement is not going to catch every failing site, and a painted line does not move when a pedestrian steps over it. Prevention has to live on the site itself, in the seconds between a hazard forming and someone being hurt. SAIFI runs alongside banksmen, barriers, mirrors and supervision as the layer that catches what people inevitably miss on the hundredth hour of a shift.
What happens next
- •More live deployments through our distributor partners, on sites where vehicles and people share the same floor.
- •Continued development of SAIFI's detection and intervention capability, driven by what we learn on those sites.
- •The same weekly health and safety coverage on this site, because the regulatory picture keeps moving.
If you would like to see SAIFI running on a live site, or talk through how it would fit alongside your existing traffic-management controls, get in touch.