Developed by Australian start-up Presien, the Blindsight AI safety system will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand as part of a distribution agreement with Position Partners.

Blindsight can be installed on mobile plant or fixed infrastructure anywhere, with the pre-trained AI automatically detecting people, vehicles, traffic cones and custom objects unique to each worksite while providing automatic, over the air updates.

Presien CEO Mark Richards said Blindsight was developed to keep workers safe at work.

"Using AI allows us to protect workers in the most complex of situations and quantify safety metrics, all at once," he said.

"The systems' in-cab visual, auditory, and haptic alerts immediately notify operators to the presence and direction of dangers in real-time."

Richards said Blindsight could also be set up for specific uses, such as when equipment was operating in reverse or inside a geofenced area.

"Supporting employee safety at every level of the organisation, Blindsight automates health and safety reporting for operations and compliance," he said.

"Videos and detection-event data are available in the cloud 24-7 and can be viewed in real-time via Blindsight's mobile and web apps."

Position Partners CEO Martin Nix said increasing safety around working heavy machinery was important.

"We are excited to announce our agreement with Presien and introduce Blindsight to the building, civil and mining sectors in Australasia," he said.

"Feedback from early adopters has been extremely positive, particularly around Blindsight's automated detection of people without the need of a wearable tag."

Nix said Blindsight was a great example "of how AI can be used to benefit humankind".