Generic compliance of industrial PPE by using deep learning techniques

•Automated PPE compliance could reduce the number and costs of workplace injuries.•The HigherHRNet pose estimator was used for defining the regions of interest (ROI).•The problem of PPE compliance is reduced to the binary classification of ROIs.•Study considered 18 PPEs used for protecting 5 physiological body parts/functions.•MobileNetV2 was recommended as the most optimal classifier for PPE compliance.