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To enhance the detection performance of safety helmets and gloves in power grid operation environments, this paper proposes a novel algorithm, YOLO-DCRCF, based on YOLO11 for detecting the wearing of safety helmets and gloves in such settings. By integrating Deformable Convolutional Network version 2 (DCNv2), the algorithm enhances the network\u2019s capability to model geometric transformations. Additionally, a recalibration feature pyramid (RCF) network is innovatively designed to strengthen the interaction between shallow and deep features, enabling the network to capture multi-scale information of the target. Experimental results show that the proposed YOLO-DCRCF model achieved mAP50 scores of 92.7% on the Safety Helmet Wearing Dataset (SHWD) and 79.6% on the Safety Helmet and Gloves Wearing Dataset (SHAGWD), surpassing the baseline YOLOv11 model by 1.1% and 2.7%, respectively. 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