Virtual Reality Helps Deliver Proper Health Safety and Environment Training
Companies are required to provide HSE (health, safety, and environment) training under a legal obligation. Companies must demonstrate that they have trained and protected their personnel and/or employees. How may you certify that you gave HSE training in accordance with regulatory standards and that employees were completely trained? Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer a solution. A company's ability to demonstrate that it has provided proper health safety and environment training is a safety measure. In the event of an accident, such proof is vital for avoiding penalties like fines or even imprisonment.
Importance Of Proper HSE Training
If a worker or employee is injured at work, the employer will be held liable if proper HSE training was not provided. Means, even if the employee has not fully protected themselves, recklessness on their part will not be considered. Recklessness happens when an employee willingly takes unnecessary risks while ignoring prevention regulations. In this situation, the employee bears responsibility for the accident, not the company.
As previously said, for recklessness to be present, the company must have given proper HSE training, which is sometimes not the case. Every year, hundreds of people are convicted for workplace accidents, and in many cases, the sentences are for companies that failed to give proper HSE training.
Virtual Reality Is A Solution
Virtual reality uses simulations to reproduce realistic situations & scenarios. By wearing a VR headset the HSE trainer can expose an employee to hazardous situations in their day-to-day work. The employee gains firsthand experience and learns without risking their health or life.
With the help of implementing the VR technology training, courses get more dynamic. Moreover, this technology enables employees to feel sensations while learning. This is known as Learn by Living, and it promotes knowledge retention. Most importantly, virtual reality lets companies demonstrate that they have given Health Safety and Environment training in accordance with regulatory standards.
Delivering Training Via Simulations
Via simulations trainers can provide health and safety training with the use of virtual reality. The exercises give feedback in the form of data at the end of a simulation: completion of all protocol steps, and timespan. Moreover, the content of the simulations is formulated on occupational health and safety rules and regulations.
The Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) simulation, for example, generates a final score established on parameters like compression quality and reaction time. This helps to assess employee performance and determines whether the protocol was completed appropriately.
The Sum Up
By not providing proper Health Safety and Environment training the company is liable for any accident that happens in the workplace. Virtual reality allows for demonstrating that HSE training has been given in compliance with rules and standards. A company's commitment to HSE reduces environmental impacts, manages risks to their employee and promotes safe work practices. Every company needs to work towards achieving zero HSE incidents and zero non-productive time every day on every job. To say in short, HSE training is a concerted effort to achieve zero safety incidents, zero environmental incidents, and zero NPT (non-productive time).