Design of Virtual Reality Simulation-based Safety Training Workshop

Abstract

Safety training is essential to high danger jobs. It is normally conducted in the traditional ways of classroom teaching or physical training at the workspace. In classroom teaching, safety procedures are theoretically described, the trainees cannot physically feel or see the machines or tools. Whereby safety training in the real-life workspace for high risk and high danger jobs often poses a risk by directly exposing the trainee to the danger area. In this project, a quiz-based interactive Virtual Reality (VR) simulated workshop was developed which allows training to be carried out in a realistic yet harmless environment, with the aims to improve the effectiveness of safety training and to reduce the incidents in the workshop. Studies were done to compare both the traditional classes and the VR system. Results show that the VR system is more effective, the trainees who took the VR training scored higher in the test compared to trainees who attended the normal classes.