Post-Corona? Public Institutions Unite to "Get the Best of Both Worlds"

KOSHA Seeks Win-Win Cooperation for Expanding Non-Face-to-Face VR Training
Agreement with Korea East-West Power, Korea Water Resources Corporation, and Korea Land & Housing Corporation
Four Agencies Share and Utilize Training Materials to Achieve Bu

Four public institutions, including the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, held a mutual cooperation agreement ceremony to share VR production and education related to safety and health.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, public institutions are diversifying their methods of coexistence and cooperation. Public institutions share the production and utilization of non-face-to-face educational materials, enjoying the added benefit of budget savings.

On the 23rd, four institutions?KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency), Korea East-West Power, Korea Water Resources Corporation, and Korea Land and Housing Corporation?signed a "Public Institution Coexistence and Cooperation Agreement for the Expansion of VR Education."

This agreement was established to promote experiential safety education using VR technology, reflecting the growing social interest in the importance of industrial accident prevention and non-face-to-face education.

The four cooperating institutions plan to develop 225 types of safety and health VR educational materials by the end of this year in preparation for the post-COVID era.

The educational materials are designed to allow indirect experience of hazardous situations in virtual reality and to learn safe work methods, enhancing educational immersion by selecting topics based on accident types and tasks where fatal accidents frequently occur.

KOSHA will produce a total of 210 types covering risks such as entrapment and collision, steel frame work, press operations, and excavator operations, and will share these video contents with the other three institutions.

Korea East-West Power will produce 7 types covering high-altitude work, electric shock, tool accidents, and heavy object falls. Korea Water Resources Corporation will produce 4 types including scaffolding work, material falls, soil collapse, and suffocation, while Korea Land and Housing Corporation will produce 4 types including stabbing, collisions, falls, and collapses.

The developed materials will be made available in the dedicated safety and health VR pavilion and can be utilized not only by other public institutions but also by many workplaces for safety and health education.

The institutions agreed to unify the material management methods to eliminate the previous issue where differences in development methods and equipment prevented the use of materials produced by other institutions.

In addition to sharing materials among public institutions, the materials will be made available for safety and health education to partner companies of each institution and private workplaces.

As of now, a total of 465 types of safety and health VR educational materials developed by KOSHA are available at the agency’s dedicated safety and health VR pavilion.

Ko Gwang-jae, Head of Education and Public Relations at KOSHA, stated, “As we enter the post-COVID era, new methods are required for safety and health education. We hope that the high-quality VR educational materials developed through this agreement will be widely utilized and contribute to the prevention of industrial accidents.”

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