Interactive visual training materials for high-risk construction activities, health, safety and wellbeing

Interactive visual training materials for high-risk construction activities, health, safety and wellbeing

This project involves developing interactive visual training resources about risk-based decision making in commercial and residential construction work environments.

Summary

The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate a set of scenario-based, interactive visual learning resources to provide managers, supervisors and workers with the knowledge and skills required to exercise risk-based decision-making in dynamic construction project work environments. 

The development of these resources is based upon a participatory design process, involving interviews with construction workers, to provide an in-depth understanding of real-life situations they experience in site-based construction work. The resources will be in the form of playable ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ scenarios in which the health and safety consequences of decisions made by people involved in the design, planning and execution of work are explored. 

The project is being conducted as a result of an enforceable undertaking between J Hutchinson and WorkSafe Victoria.

Simonds Group are supporting Hutchinson Builders, enabling the scope of the resources to include both commercial/industrial and residential construction scenarios.

Project team

  • Paul Pereira (Hutchinson Builders, Project Lead)
  • Matilda Fowke (Hutchinson Builders)
  • Candece Frazzica-Kara (Hutchinson Builders)
  • Jimmy Andersen (Hutchinson Builders)
  • Paul Williams (Simonds Homes)
  • Distinguished Prof. Helen Lingard (RMIT, Academic Lead)
  • Professor Stefan Greuter (RMIT, Video Design Lead)
  • Associate Prof. Rita Zhang (RMIT, Chief Investigator)
  • Dr Payam Pirzadeh (RMIT, Chief Investigator)
  • Dr Jack Clarke (RMIT, Research Fellow)
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