Virtual Reality Safety Training

Challenge

Today, training and in-service training of employees in the energy sector most often takes place in physical teaching environments / simulators on land or through online courses. The existing offers can be time-consuming, costly to use and limited by the conditions that the providers of the education can recreate. This applies, for example, to the training of service technicians for the offshore industry, who are typically trained on land before they are sent out for the actual task to be solved at sea. With the latest VR / AR technology, it provides the opportunity to train offshore and recreate realistic and dangerous situations. This provides better trained staff, saves costs, and will save lives.

Solution idea

The project Virtual Reality Safety Training will optimise the training and education of employees in the energy sector by utilising virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and physical education. The partners in the project are developing a digital teaching platform that, based on VR, can help companies in the energy sector to create realistic teaching environments that are reminiscent of the actual conditions in which the work is to be carried out.

When the training and education offers in the energy sector are improved, the safety of the employees who are continuously certified through training and continuing education is increased. You can save a lot of time and large costs by using virtual reality in security training. The solution is a training environment in VR, which can be performed onsite and where learning and efficiency are higher than normal. e-learning. Therefore, by using VR in training and in-service training of crews, actors in the energy sector can also get more and better training in less time while maintaining the safety of the employees who are continuously certified through training and in-service training. Furthermore, it is expected that a streamlining can reduce the cost of training and in-service training for the energy sector by 20 percent.

Project deliverables

A complete training environment with instructions in VR. 1 Training scenario where there is a great risk associated – Mooring (Mooring of vessels).

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