Advantages of Virtual Fire & Safety Training
Fire destroys property & lives. It’s imperative for industries such as oil & gas and petroleum where fire safety training plays an important role to have all fire safety procedures and equipment in place.
Traditional methods for fire safety training involve training each employee separately. This is quite expensive since each time an individual has to be trained a piece of new equipment has to be bought in and the trainer has to be paid. Also, it’s not possible to replicate real-world scenarios for every type of emergency. The trainee can’t effectively learn when and how to use different types of fire extinguishers. Overall traditional learning doesn’t provide an effective training solution for organizations.
VR safety training modules are proving to be quite helpful for organizations. it cuts down a significant amount of training costs and speed up the whole training process.
Here are some of the advantages of VR fire safety training.
Cost Effective
Virtual reality only requires a user to wear a VR headset for immersive training. It reduces the travel and accommodation costs of employees since they can be trained simultaneously from a remote location. It also saves costs of infrastructure created solely for training.
Immersive learning
In VR safety training, every possible emergency scenario in the real world is simulated in a 3D immersive environment. The learners learn how to use different types of fire extinguishers for different fire emergencies without putting any danger to their lives. With this visual & interactive training, a trainee is able to retain the learnings for a much longer period of time.
Safety
One of the benefits while training in VR is no risk of injuries is involved. for example, using a traditional method a worker can get himself injured while using the wrong equipment or lack understanding. In VR such real-world emergency scenarios are simulated in an immersive 3D virtual environment.
Conclusion
Virtual reality training reduces the risk of lives and provides an immersive training solution to organizations. Employees are much better equipped to handle real-world fire emergencies.
There are virtual solution providers such as yeppar that provide custom VR safety training modules which can save costs & makes learning more immersive & interactive.