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FALLING DOWN…AND GETTING UP AGAIN
| 题名： | FALLING DOWN…AND GETTING UP AGAIN |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Tim Bruns |
| 摘要： | JUST A FEW YEARS AGO AT WORLD OF CONCRETE, MATT MURPHY, PRESIDENT OF SEE INC., WALKED INTO ONE OF THE SHOW BOOTHS AND OBSERVED A DEMONSTRATION OF A VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) SIMULATION FOR FALL PROTECTION TRAINING IN WORK ZONES. At first glance, Murphy thought the technology looked a bit "hokey." "I figured the person with the headset on was probably an actor, and there was no way this 'video game' was making a fully functioning adult actually shake and get nervous," Murphy told Roads & Bridges. To his surprise, however, when Murphy had a go with the headset, he found himself sucked in immediately. "I was [virtually] standing on a high-rise building looking down at cars passing and hearing construction activity around me and someone yelling for me to hurry up and bring them a tool," he said. During this experience with the VR simulation, Murphy was placed in another scenario and the first thing he saw was a hook on his chest. He grabbed the hook, tied himself off, and went to move forward. At this point, he experienced his first virtual fall. "Thankfully I had tied off in the scenario, so when my walking surface failed I was only dropped until my lanyard grabbed me," Murphy said. "I can tell you my stomach felt like I had just dropped three floors. There was no shock that the lanyard would put in your body but the fall felt real. There may have been a loud colorful word that escaped my mouth when I fell. I felt my heart pound and was very happy to remember this was all virtual." After this initial experience, Murphy realized that training construction workers on fall protection with this technology was the only way to put someone in such a hazardous situation safely. His company, Safety Environmental Engineering Inc. (SEE Inc.), has had decades of experience providing safety and safety education solutions for the construction industry. The work at SEE Inc. includes training construction workers on OSHA requirements for fall protection on a jobsite, as well as fall protection rescue training. For SEE Inc., the VR simulator technology has advanced the fall protection training experience for road and bridge workers. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Roads & bridges |
| 卷： | 59 |
| 期： | 4 |
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