Safety compliance in manufacturing relies on a fundamentally intermittent system. Safety walks happen once or twice per shift. Observations are recorded on paper or in disconnected systems. The feedback loop between a violation and a correction is measured in hours or days — not seconds. The result is predictable. PPE compliance is high when supervisors are visible and low when they are not. Restricted zones are respected during safety audits and accessed casually between them. Near-miss conditions develop and resolve without being captured — which means the precursors to serious incidents are invisible to the safety team. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that manufacturing accounts for approximately 15% of all workplace fatalities and 20% of non-fatal injuries requiring days away from work (BLS, 2023). OSHA data indicates that PPE violations are consistently among the top 10 most cited standards, with an average penalty of $15,625 per serious violation and up to $156,259 for willful violations (OSHA, 2024). Beyond penalties, each OSHA recordable incident carries an estimated total cost of $42,000-$54,000 when accounting for direct costs, lost productivity, and administrative burden (National Safety Council, 2023). This is not a culture problem that more training will solve. It is a visibility problem. Safety leaders cannot correct what they cannot see. And periodic observation cannot see what happens between observations.