An Innovative ICT Solution for Providing Bespoke Safety and Health Training to Workers in the Construction and Transportation Sectors.

Project Information

SEEABLE

Grant agreement ID: 672124

DOI

10.3030/672124

Project closed

EC signature date 10 April 2015

Start date 1 May 2015

End date 31 October 2015

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

THE SEVERN PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SEEABLE (An Innovative ICT Solution for Providing Bespoke Safety and Health Training to Workers in the Construction and Transportation Sectors.)

Reporting period: 2015-05-01 to 2015-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The SEEABLE project has primarily consisted of investigations into the development of interactive railway training environments, involving consultation with industry professionals in demonstrating a range of interactive media.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

All railway networks across Europe work to capacity, have less track access time and room for error and an increasing risk to trackside staff who have less access time to maintain the infrastructure. Also with a drive for adoption of BIM (building information modelling) for infrastructure, our developments would enable re-use of this engineering data to provide non-technical safety visualisations, spreading the benefit of the BIM investment away from just facility owners and design teams.

Stakeholders
Consultation ranged from the Health and Safety Executive, to London Underground, Network Rail, Consulting Engineers (Arup, Tata, URS) and current PTS (Personal Track Safety) training providers. Discussions highlighted the need to engage the trainees, move away from recalling information just long enough to pass a test and towards embedding an understanding of consequences and the subtler points of behavioural safety that are usually only learnt by experience on site.

Work performed
From Phase 1 work, a range training aids, visualisations and interactive virtual reality behavioural safety training environment have been created and demonstrated to the above stakeholders. The first concept product involved augmenting 2D engineering drawings and topographical surveys with safety critical knowledge to enable situational awareness. This progressed to re-using 3D engineering data to create VR environments of existing sites aiming at a safety visualisation for briefing and collaborating on large construction projects. Lastly, creating fully immersive behavioural training environments with hazard location, geo-referencing of risk, incident reconstruction and trainer analysis of trainee actions.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The feedback received reflected a desire to improve behavioural safety, use technology to aid safety and logistical briefings prior to work and, for the examples where we modelled existing infrastructure, to use this BIM for data to promote collaboration between disparate disciplines in the rail sector.

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