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The Lesson - Be Susan. Don’t be Peter.
Peter approaches the training room and sees expectant faces look his way through the glass. Legs jiggle. Eyes dart around the room. Some of the trainees sit with slumped shoulders. Everyone knows the next several hours are going to be tedious. “I have to resist the urge to groan outwardly on these days,” Peter tells us. It’s Monday, the busiest day of the week on-site for Peter and his team, and this Monday, they’ve got the added pressure of a site safety induction to get through. Peter acknowledges that these sessions are important. “Crucial really,” says Peter. “But they’re also boring for everyone involved. They take far too long and there’s too much paperwork and I wonder how much of it they retain as they listen to me drone on and on for hours.” Not as much as they should, Peter admits to us, explaining that costly mistakes still happen. Accidents still happen. “There’s just too much down time with the whole process,” says Peter. Contrast Peter’s experience with Susan’s. Susan has a busy day ahead of her
too and a site to keep running. But she’s not concerned about her safety induction session. She’ll spend 30 minutes outlining how the site induction will be done and showing them how to use their Virtual Training Experience equipment. “They’ll work through the induction modules on their own – experiencing simulated working conditions as they do,” says Susan. Virtual Reality Training does an excellent job of simulating the work environment and Susan’s noticed a sharp increase in the retention of knowledge since the company started inducting people to the site this way. “I’ll pop in and out during the hours it will take them to complete the induction to check on their progress and then have lunch delivered so we can go over their results and any questions they have together,” explains Susan. But the Virtual Reality Experience will also show the inductees where they went wrong as they complete the simulated exercises. Susan says she’ll have the new recruits prepared for working on site in no time and, she says, “I’m confident they’ll be doing so safely.”
