Immersive safety training for the construction industry

Reduce incidents, standardize best practices and accelerate upskilling with realistic, measurable VR experiences that are easy to deploy on site.

A construction worker using a VR headset with his colleagues

Analysis of the construction sector

The construction industry refers to the branch of manufacture based on the building, maintaining, and repairing structures, including all general contractors and operative builders primarily engaged in the construction of residential, farm, industrial, commercial, or other buildings.
Accidents
60 000
fatal accidents per year (worldwide)
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that at least 60,000 fatal accidents occur each year on construction sites around the world.
This means that there is a fatal accident every 10 minutes somewhere in the world.

Source 1 : ilo

Source 2 : ilo

Market
+6,5 %
compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
The global construction sector is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.5% and reach $10,835.6 billion by 2023.

Source : globenewswire

Sector challenges

Challenge n°1 :

Heavy workload to stay up to date on industry legislation and COVID regulations
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Turnkey platform that takes the pressure off and saves you time when it comes to organizing safety days, Source: quarts d’heures sécurité, training, etc., leaving you time to focus on other important matters such as keeping up to date with industry regulations.
Virtual campus hub

Challenge n°2 :

Need to make training innovative, effective and engaging for employees to effectively reduce workplace accidents
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Immersive 3D & VR digital platform with a catalog of more than 30 immersive learning exercises allowing a faster and more efficient learning than traditional training to effectively reduce the number of accidents.
Construction workers training in workplace safety using immersive technologies

Challenge n°3 :

Willingness to create a safety culture in the sector, motivated by the high number of accidents in this sector
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Adoption of an innovative solution to stay ahead of the competition while contributing to the establishment of a safety culture in the industry thanks to an easy-to-deploy tool.
A worker using a VR headset on a construction site

Challenge n°4 :

Difficulty of the training mode for the personnel and the mobile teams, as they are faced with a new environment for each place: very dependent on the customer's construction site which requires a particular organization
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Customizable tool allowing the coherence of the actions of each site on a single tool, and multi-device allowing each learner to train safely, wherever he is. Intuitive back office and real-time access to key performance indicators (KPIs) allows constant monitoring of team efforts and achievements.
Backoffice kpis

Challenge n°5 :

Need to engage and re-motivate staff during safety meetings/onboardings, as they can be boring (paper and pen) and time consuming in terms of organization
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Innovative, original solution implementing gamification & edutainment to re-motivate and re-engage employees, making them happier while ensuring their safety.
A construction worker immersed in a VR exercise

Challenge n°6 :

Accessibility issues: language barrier, reading difficulty, equipment, etc.
How Immersive Factory’s solution helps overcome this challenge:
Digital platform available in several languages and in multi-device for use at home or on site: Safety for Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday.
Immersive equipment

Why choose Immersive Factory?

Immersive Factory implements virtual reality modules to provide safety training for construction professionals and teach them the correct procedures to follow to prevent accidents on construction sites.

Our training courses raise awareness of the dangers in the construction industry and significantly reduce accidents. Implementing a system to educate employees about the various risks using an eLearning platform facilitates learning and simplifies prevention thanks to online training courses that can be viewed several times at the employee's own pace and directly involve their participation.

Risk prevention using the Immersive Factory training system allows you to protect the health of your employees, comply with current regulations, and increase your employees' skills in terms of the actions, postures, and behaviors to adopt to ensure their safety.

Want to know how to boost your safety meetings in the construction industry?

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I - Some figuresThe construction sector is highly exposed to risks1 employee out of 18 suffers a work accident per year, i.e. 1 work accident every 2 minutes.In 2018, across all sectors, the construction sector accounted for ap...

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Exercises dedicated to the construction sector

Awareness Training on the use of the Aerial Work Platform preview image
Awareness Training on the use of the Aerial Work Platform
Hazard Spotting - Construction site preview image
Hazard Spotting - Construction site
Hazard Spotting - Public Works preview image
Hazard Spotting - Public Works
Hazard Spotting - Scaffolding preview image
Hazard Spotting - Scaffolding
Hazard Spotting - Work at height preview image
Hazard Spotting - Work at height
Work at height - Viaduct preview image
Work at height - Viaduct