Enhancing the construction safety training by using virtual environment : V-SAFE

Kiral, Isik Ates; Çomu, Semra; Kavaklioğlu, Can

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“…It has strongly benefited from the advent of mobile technologies and powerful computer graphics and is now seen as an effective disruptive innovation (Figure ). VR enables interactive and immersive real-time task simulations across a growing wealth of areas, including aerospace, , architecture, construction, − manufacturing, − video games, , arts and humanities, medicine, ,− and education. − Of the many areas set to benefit from VR technologies, safe practices for the physical sciences present a significant opportunity. ,− ,,− ,− Having stated this, exploration of VR in the Chemistry space remains in relative infancy. − In higher education, prelab training in VR has the potential to address these issues giving students multiple attempts to complete core protocols virtually in advance of experimental work, creating the time and space to practice outside of the physical laboratory.…”

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A Transferable Psychological Evaluation of Virtual Reality Applied to Safety Training in Chemical Manufacturing

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ACS Chem. Health Saf.

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High-profile accidents in the Chemical sector across research and manufacturing scaleshave provided strong drivers to develop a new benchmark in safety training and compliance. Herein, we describe the design, implementation, and standardized psychological evaluation of virtual reality (VR) applied to process safety training. Through a specific industrial case study, we show that testable learning of complex safetyspecific tasks in VR is statistically equivalent to traditional slidebased video training. However, VR training presents a measurable positive improvement on trainees' perception of overall learning and their feeling of presence in the task during training. It has also been shown that knowledge retention from video lectures can be overestimated, if not controlled. Through these resultsand our transferable blueprint for robustly assessing any new VR training platformwe envisage a range of technologically enabled efforts to enhance safety performance in both laboratory-and plant-based activities. Implications for physical resource-saving projects are also described.

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