Civil Engineering
Project summary
Modules: EV & Hybrid Health & Safety | EV & Hybrid Orientation and Component parts
Location: MIRA Technology Institute
Focus XR worked with Finer Engineering and Amey to produce virtual work experience 360 immersive videos covering a broad range of on-site experience tool handling and health and safety. This suite of videos are used by both colleges and industry to support their students and staff to gain work experience in a safe virtual environment.
T-level students studying construction and engineering can get on-site virtual experience without any risk of injury or putting them in any dangerous situations. Focus XR gives T-level students the experience of working on large infrastructure projects with big companies, on busy construction sites, building things like train stations, working next to plant equipment, working from height, and working with hand tools, with at all the health and safety, training and considerations that need to go into working on a construction site.
4 Hours
Ricoh Theta & Drone
Apprenticeships & staff induction
Benefits for companies:
Companies benefit by using and editing 360 video footage for in-house site safety inductions and site tours for their new workforce. Focus XR supports workers becoming familiar with the site before they go onto the job in the real world and understand the expectations and protocols required to work safely.
Difficult and dangerous filming environments and certain technical aspects of work may only occur sometimes. Once captured on 360 video footage, the videos can be further edited and added to with new complementary footage building a library of content that is difficult to replicate.
Each company introduces and manages assessments, quizzes, and attendance using the Focus XR 360 video editing suite. The video is further enhanced with graphics highlighting key learning points, highlighting the danger, and providing a more interactive learning experience.
Benefits for Colleges:
The requirement for virtual work experience hours as part of T-levels can be achieved in part virtually using Focus XR. South Staffordshire, Burton, South Derbyshire, Buxton, Stoke City College, Banbury and Hugh Baird College have all benefited from their T-level students accessing construction and engineering workplace experience. Focus XR’s interactive technology, which works on any desktop machine or Virtual Reality goggles, means students are experiencing immersive learning opportunities that would expensive and difficult to facilitate.
Outcome:
Students, graduates, and new staff are more confident and competent because they’ve been immersed in the environment they are expected to work. They are more familiar with that working environment and know what to expect in terms of health and safety and knowledge about the working environment.
Linking colleges with big companies creates links for apprenticeships directly from the college to the employers like Amey and Finer Engineering.
