Personal Protective Equipment Detection Dataset (5-Class) for Construction Safety Monitoring

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Detection Dataset (5-Class) for Construction Safety Monitoring is an object-detection dataset curated to help developers build real-time systems that verify whether construction workers are wearing essential safety gear. Images were selected to stress practical deployment: diverse viewpoints (elevated cameras, close-ups), common occlusions (hands in pockets, partially hidden hard hats), and environmental variability (shadow, glare, dust). These characteristics encourage generalization and robustness in downstream models—a known gap when training only on clean, staged photos.