Humanoid robots are no longer a concept. The first deployments in European industrial facilities are underway — and occupational safety professionals will be among the first to decide how, whether, and on what terms these systems enter their organisations. This presentation takes a deliberately practical approach. Drawing on the development of VIGIL — a humanoid robot specialised in industrial safety — it walks through three concrete use cases your HSE team will recognise immediately: autonomous night-shift patrol of blind-spot zones with real-time gas and hazard detection; continuous ergonomic observation and physical demonstration of safer work movements to reduce musculoskeletal disorders at source; and a Gemba walk assistant that handles documentation and pattern analysis so that supervisors can focus entirely on the conversation in front of them. Each use case exposes the same structural limit: The technology works — when the human side is prepared. The presentation identifies three specific failure modes that no software update will fix: The operator who does not trust the robot, the supervisor who defers to AI when his experience says otherwise, and the team that outsources accountability to the system. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of what humanoid safety systems can and cannot do today, the deployment conditions that determine whether they create value or create risk, and a practical framework for assessing whether their safety culture is ready for this transition — before the robots arrive. Suitable for: HSE managers, plant directors, safety officers in manufacturing, energy sector, logistics, heavy industries, food industry, and public sector facilities.