Harry Parnell from Balfour Beatty showed how VR is being used to help achieve Zero Harm. Presented at the COMIT Community Day held at Bentley in London on 2nd March 2017
2. HSE Safety Topics
Site organisation
Slips, trips and falls
Work at height
Structural stability
Cranes
Electricity
Fire
Demolition
Mobile plant and vehicles
14. Feedback..
BBV Project Director
“ As new people join projects we need to be able to give them People Plant Interface
“red zone” training, effectively getting them to understand where and where not to
stand relative to plant. Where possible /practicable this can be done in a live
scenario. But this is not always possible (plant, operator and space availability) and I
see Virtual Reality (VR) as a tool to allow this training to be undertaken anywhere
and at any-time. It will allow personnel to practice and experience safe positioning
around plant. “
Richard Turnbull
M5 Smart Motorway Project Director
15. • feedback now from well over 200 people;
• the main thing that people feel would improve the scenarios and make them
more ‘real’, would be if we could get the plant moving when immersed in the
environment/Exclusion Zone.
• They want the feeling as though when you enter the RED (Bad) exclusion
zone, the piece of plant swings towards you, and ‘Virtually’ hits you. They feel
this would add the shock factor, and add more to the safety seriousness
message.
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Feedback
M5 Smart Motorways Site Team
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Feedback
Balfour Beatty Canary Wharf
1.) can we get two or more people in the
environment
2.) can we get people doing tasks? This will help
with awareness on what is happening around them
3.) used to review safe systems of work
4.) movement of equipment / plant / carriageway
5.) sounds from the highways, cars trucks moving in
the open lanes in the 360 example.
6.) sounds of plant (record sounds from site? This
will make you get more submerged in the
environment.
8.) Have people moving around the outside. Use two
controllers to drive the excavator forwards
backwards.
Martin Brock
Head of HSE&S Balfour Beatty Major Projects
Stephen Tarr
Managing Director Balfour Beatty Major Projects
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Feedback
Highways England and Supply Chain
I believe the system you have developed will
improve H&S on scheme as the operatives
can experience what it is like working near to
machinery etc before being placed in any
danger. Until you have actually experienced
sitting in a excavator or using your virtual
reality equipment operatives do not
understand what the drivers can see.
Neil Brooksbank
FLUOR LIMITED
Ian Wright
Highways England ?
Janice Allen
Highways England ?