LG Electronics Opens Safety Experience Center 'SafetyOn' in Changwon

LG Smart Park Opens Educational Facility with 38 Safety Experience Installations
Safety Training Using VR, AR, and Robots

LG Electronics announced on the 20th that it has opened the safety experience center 'SAFETY ON' at LG Smart Park in Changwon.

The SAFETY ON safety experience center, built on approximately 687㎡ (about 208 pyeong) at LG Smart Park in Changwon, Gyeongnam, is an educational facility that provides safety training not only for in-house employees but also for partner companies and local small and medium-sized enterprises. The name SAFETY ON carries the meaning of 'awakening latent safety awareness so that everyone can work safely.'

LG Electronics has opened the safety experience center 'SAFETY ON' at LG Smart Park in Changwon. The photo shows visitors at the SAFETY ON safety experience center undergoing VR training on fall accidents at construction sites, learning the importance of wearing safety harnesses. Photo by LG Electronics

Since 2019, LG Electronics has been operating safety experience centers at the Production Technology Institute and CS Learning Center in Pyeongtaek Digital Park. With the establishment of the third safety experience center at Changwon Smart Park, the company plans to raise awareness of safety accidents in industrial sites. It also allows participants to experience various accident cases that can occur in manufacturing and construction sites, such as industrial robot accidents, forklift collisions, falls, fires, and electric shocks, and informs them of the risks to prevent accidents.

To maximize the educational effect, LG Electronics designed all spaces in the safety experience center as experiential zones utilizing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and industrial robots. The center is equipped with a total of 38 safety experience facilities. Participants learn how to respond by directly experiencing safety accidents that can occur in industrial sites and daily life in spaces designed like virtual environments or actual accident scenes.

The safety experience center’s program consists of ▲theoretical education ▲equipment and health zones ▲VR experience zones ▲construction safety zones ▲crisis response zones, operated as a total 3-hour training course.

In particular, the theoretical education includes a 'multi VR experience' training where up to 40 people simultaneously connect to virtual reality using VR devices to identify various safety accident risk factors that can occur in manufacturing sites. Additionally, in the '4D VR' zone of the VR experience area, an 8-effect 4D simulator?including motion, sound, and heat?is linked with VR content to realistically experience actual accident scenes and learn appropriate response actions.

The equipment zone of the safety experience center is set up identically to an actual automated conveyor line and industrial robot worksite. Especially in industrial robot safety training, participants experience risk factors and accident cases that may occur during maintenance and receive education on safety devices that can prevent entrapment accidents.

Kim Sung-woo, Head of H&A Safety Environment and Support at LG Electronics, said, "At the SAFETY ON safety experience center, we aim to awaken safety awareness through education that goes beyond simple knowledge delivery by allowing participants to experience actual accident scenes." He added, "We will contribute to preventing safety accidents by creating a safe working environment."

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