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An underestimated but quantifiable risk to human safety is introduced by the widespread use of infrared (IR) emitters in IoT ecosystems, including smart homes, industrial automation, and hospital settings. Though current IoT frameworks interpret IR emitters as permanently active, context-agnostic actuators, prolonged or unmanaged IR exposure accelerates device deterioration, produces cumulative thermal tissue stress, and induces increasing eye tiredness. The new autonomous safety orchestration framework Infra Shield-IoT, which integrates human-centric IR hazard governance directly into IoT device intelligence, is presented in this study. There are three suggested original contributions:(1) A multi-signal, real-time measurement model for cumulative infrared radiation at the device level is the IR Hazard Exposure Index (IHEI); (2) the Adaptive IR Emission Controller (AIREC), a cloud-free, four-mode autonomous emission management engine; and(3) the Proximity-Aware Safety Mesh (PASM), a peer-consensus sensing-based decentralised multi-device safety coordination framework. The experimental testing at smart factories and hospital wards and smart home test sites achieved a 78.4% reduction of total infrared radiation exposure together with 63.2% energy savings and 94.1% accuracy in human-proximity detection and 97.6% operational continuity during network failure situations. InfraShield-IoT transforms infrared emission into a safety standard which IoT systems must control dynamically in order to reach complete protection for human beings.