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To address these challenges, this study proposes a vision-based protective equipment wearing compliance detection method for underground personnel based on CGALS-YOLO. Traditional object detection models often introduce substantial redundant background information during multi-scale feature fusion, which weakens the perception of key wearing regions, particularly for small-scale targets. To alleviate this issue, a content-guided feature fusion (CGAFusion) module is incorporated into the neck of the YOLOv8 network, enabling adaptive fusion of same-scale multi-path features through the collaborative effects of channel, spatial, and pixel attention mechanisms. This design enhances target-related feature representation while suppressing background interference in complex underground scenes. Furthermore, to reduce parameter redundancy and improve cross-scale discrimination consistency in the detection head, a lightweight shared convolution detection (LSCD) structure is introduced. By employing cross-scale shared convolution parameters, group normalization, and scale-adaptive regression, the proposed model achieves a parameter reduction of approximately 23.9% while lowering computational complexity and maintaining stable multi-scale detection performance. Experimental results on an underground protective equipment wearing compliance dataset demonstrate that CGALS-YOLO improves detection accuracy by approximately 4.6% and recall by 3.1% compared with the baseline YOLOv8n, achieving an mAP@0.5 of 89.4%. 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