2020 #VWEDU: Fall safety (2): Signature Safety: Training in digital worlds

Fall safety (2): 

Signature Safety: 

Training in digital worlds

A third video interview with people in a safety consulting firm showing the advantages offered by scene simulations in a virtual world, such as Kitely.  Simulated environments offer high potential for students to learn about careers and to begin learning the skills that they will need to enter that career.   

• Watch on YouTube

Signature Safety is a full-service environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting firm with offices located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Our clients span the spectrum of industries, from warehousing and distribution facilities to construction managers; from manufacturing to maintenance contractors; from municipal governments to construction subcontractors.

• Web page
• Kitely page
• Trenching and excavation safety
• Hypergrid address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Signature Safety LLC

• Update 9/17/2020  OpenSim land area up. Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual. OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept.

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Use cases for such digital facilities

Train and retrain professionals

• Professionals are already employees
• Their employer needs to make sure they are properly trained.
• The employer pays the training cost and arranges the training.
• This is the use case of signature safety.   

Initial training

• Companies prefer to hire experienced people.
• Training on heavy equipment (search)
• College training on heavy equipment (search)
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. 
• Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world
• Introduction to a new virtual training environment for Process plants
• Just like being in a refinery or chemical plant.
• Creator's faculty website: Andy Sullivan's Homepage
• at Montana State University Billings.

Career guidance

• Career guidance (search)
• Career guidance field trips (search)

Related

• Training in digital worlds: Signature Safety: in the trenches
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. 
• Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world 
• Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
• Demonstration oil rig: Conversation with an imaginary TA (Teaching Assistant)

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• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
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• Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.