VERISA (virtual environment for real-time safety awareness)

VERISA is an environment wherein safety and regulatory standards set the boundaries of 3D CAD environments to provide a real-time risk model which can be viewed in virtual and/or augmented space. This paper will detail the Phase 1 development of the environment and future goals to make this valuable tool available.In current laser safety modeling, orientation in graphical space is not intuitively coupled with hard numbers. It certainly does not make a product or experiment developer’s function easier or efficient. Conversion between numbers and metrics and design or NHZ/MPE/LCA designation is left to the LSO and no matter how rigorous the study, subject to interpretation.VERISA is designed to integrate or be added to commercially available and open source CAD software so users can see and manipulate in a virtual world the hazards which exist or could exist in new experiment configuration or piece of equipment before it exists and without subjecting personnel to hazards.VERISA is an environment wherein safety and regulatory standards set the boundaries of 3D CAD environments to provide a real-time risk model which can be viewed in virtual and/or augmented space. This paper will detail the Phase 1 development of the environment and future goals to make this valuable tool available.In current laser safety modeling, orientation in graphical space is not intuitively coupled with hard numbers. It certainly does not make a product or experiment developer’s function easier or efficient. Conversion between numbers and metrics and design or NHZ/MPE/LCA designation is left to the LSO and no matter how rigorous the study, subject to interpretation.VERISA is designed to integrate or be added to commercially available and open source CAD software so users can see and manipulate in a virtual world the hazards which exist or could exist in new experiment configuration or piece of equipment before it exists and without subjecting personnel to hazards.