2020 #VWEDU: Training in digital worlds: Signature Safety: in the trenches

Training in digital worlds: 

Signature Safety:  

In the trenches 

A video interview with people in a safety consulting firm showing the advantages offered  by scene simulations in a virtual world, such as Kitely.   

• 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 8/27/2020 Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30

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Simulated instruction in safety training

• A digital scene can safely simulate any chosen environment.

Business advantages

• Low cost of facilities.
• Custom builds.
• World wide access. 
• No transportation: Only the actual training time is charged against training. 
• No travel costs.

Customization

• Specific facilities can be duplicated.
• Precision situated learning.
• Teaches not just about emergency eye-wash, but where it is.
• Customized scenes can be preserved at negligible cost

Team training

• A team can work together in the simulated work site.
• Team training supports social learning.
• Management may learn from watching performance during team exercises,

Video production

• Any element of training can be captured on video.
• Video might be used for supplementary training or documentation of training.
• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources

Related 

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• 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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• Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.