ABSTRACT
Provision of effective safety and health training to workers plays a crucial role for safety knowledge transfer to ensure work-safe competences and hence a preventive culture. By applying virtual reality (VR) technology for experiential learning, workers are able to completely immerse themselves in a virtual environment which mimics a realistic work environment for learning and training under different preset scenarios. The imseCAVE has been successfully applied for the creation of different virtual environments to provide immersive training experiences to various users. Interactive devices such as data gloves, trackers, joysticks, and motion platforms can be readily connected to the imseCAVE for better immersive effects and interactivity of the virtual environment, which makes it suitable for creating the virtual work environment and simulating the work accidents used in the VR experiential safety and health training. The immersive nature of VR experiential learning makes it a promising method for safety training.
