Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from industrial control systems

A system comprising:

• an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component;
• an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication component;
• and
• a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE and the industrial controller device, wherein the computing device comprises:
• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to:
• receive PPE data from the article of PPE and industrial controller data from the industrial controller device;
• determine an identifier of a worker that corresponds to the article of PPE;
• select, based at least in part on the identifier of a worker, a training history that indicates training completed by the worker;
• select, based at least in part on an industrial controller identifier of the set of industrial controller data that corresponds to the industrial controller device, a training rule that is configured for the industrial controller device;
• and
• determine, based at least in part on (i) a set of the PPE data that temporally corresponds to a set of the industrial controller data, and (ii) a determination that the training history completed by the worker does not satisfy the training rule configured for the industrial controller device, an occurrence of a safety event;
• and
• perform, based at least in part on the determination of the occurrence of the safety event, at least one operation.