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Lloyd’s Register will demonstrate a new virtual reality (VR) experience in the Safety & Health Expo keynote arena.
On Tuesday 20th June, 4pm at Safety & Health Expo, Peter Richards of Lloyd’s Register and Lewis Young, Polar Media will demonstrate how VR can help
improve knowledge and awareness of safety issues faced working in challenging environments.
Immersive experience
The new immersive experience places employees in an offshore oil rig environment, challenges them to evaluate various potential safety breaches – and demonstrates what the impact would have been if they had failed to detect them.
By using VR, employees can wear headsets to assess an environment, find the cause of an incident and solve them to avert disaster. The simulation uses crash-test dummy figures to graphically illustrate what can happen to workers in the event of a safety fail.
Virtual reality is starting to prove itself in health and safety, with construction sites such as Thames Tideway finding the technology to be a powerful way of allowing employees to experience various scenarios first-hand in a risk-free environment.
