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Portuguese Focus group: April 30th, 2019, Prior Velho (Portugal)

1st May 2019. Cenfic organized a focus group with Portuguese experts from the construction sector, and specifically from road works, to address the importance of the use of virtual reality tools in the training environment. In this way, yesterday they met health and safety officials and entities of the sector, as well as members of Vocational Education and Training (VET) centers.

During the meeting they discussed the use of new technologies applied to learning to improve the access to the training for construction workers. In addition, the importance of the correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was addressed along with other relevant Health and Safety issues.

Finally, they focused on the causes, consequences and approach to three of the most common Road Maintenance and Operation jobs, and how learning in this area encourage. For example, lane cutting work can be the result of an accident, an incident or it can be a planned job, so it is very advantageous to teach future professionals in the sector to make decisions before performing such work so that they know the signs, tools, personal and collective protective equipment...

Second Partners Meeting: April 11th and 12th, 2019. Torino (Italy)

15th April, 2019. The Italian partner Formedil Piamonte hosted the second meeting of the VRoad consortium, where the virtual reality training system proposed by the project was discussed, which try to become a support tool for Health and Safety learning in Road Maintenance and Operation work.   

In this sense, the definition of the graphic and visual aspects of the application, as well as the description of the scenarios to simulate three situations or daily work carried out by these sector professionals: lane cutting; guardrail and traffic signs reparation; and protocol in case of accident.

The use of virtual reality as a training system is based, in this case, on the methodology of "Work Based Learning" (WBL) which improves the assimilation of knowledge thanks to immersive experience.

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