United Kingdom · London
Headquarters, platform engineering, and UK pilot deployments across Tier 1 construction, utilities, and infrastructure.
Overguard is the connected workforce safety platform for critical infrastructure. We detect, predict, and account for safety events across construction, utility, and infrastructure sites, with hardware that clips to any EN 397 helmet and a platform built around how work actually happens on site.
Construction is 5% of the UK workforce and 26% of its fatal workplace injuries. The sector is full of safety data: inspection records, near-miss registers, RIDDOR files. Almost all of it describes the past. When something goes wrong on an unconnected site, the longest minutes are spent finding the worker.
Overguard runs upstream of that record. The pod detects the event as it happens, the platform routes the Alert while response still matters, and Overguard AI surfaces the patterns that precede Alerts, so the record becomes the last line of defence, not the first sign of trouble.
Most safety data is a record of what already happened. We build for the minutes and weeks before: live Risk Signal, patterns surfaced by Overguard AI, and Alerts that arrive while there is still time to act.
The S1 clips to the helmet a worker already owns, weighs 165 grams, and carries no camera, microphone, or productivity telemetry. Adoption is a design requirement, not a change-management project.
Construction, utilities, and infrastructure run on standards that took decades to harden. We meet them (EN 397, IP67, ATEX Zone 2) before we ask anyone to wear our hardware.
The spec sheet is the honest one. What Overguard S1 does is claimed plainly; what is on the S2 roadmap is labelled as roadmap. Credibility compounds, and it is the only marketing a safety company keeps.
Overguard was founded in 2024 to close the gap between how safety systems work and how sites actually operate. The company is headquartered in London, with operations in Perth, Western Australia, the two markets whose contractors, utilities, and infrastructure programmes the platform is built for.
Sam founded Overguard after years spent around the operational reality of major infrastructure delivery in the UK and Australia, where safety systems were thorough on paper and blind in the field. He leads the company across both regions, with the engineering and safety-operations team split between London and Perth.