VR-based Safety Training Research in Construction

Abstract

Safety training in the construction industry widely adopted virtual reality (VR) technologies to train and educate employees and workers to enhance the safety performance of projects. In this study, a review of VR-based safety training research in construction was carried out to understand the body of literature. Using keywords such as “construction industry” OR “safety training” OR “safety learning," etc., a total of 52 journal articles published between 2000 and 2021 were collected from the Scopus database after advanced filtering. A two-stage analysis of VR-based safety training methods and application areas was carried out were followed by a review. The results indicate that the immersive safety training method was widely used followed by desktop-based, game-based, and BIM-based training methods. VR-based safety training methods are largely applied to hazard recognition (HR), safe operations (SO), and safety awareness (SA). The study findings could assist both academicians and construction practitioners in choosing the best optimal VR-based safety training methods to improve training performance.