Enhancing Risk Assessment Skills in Hazardous Environments: Priming with a Serious Game Approach

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• Personal Author:
  Cena L ; Keren N ; Simpson SA ; Stone RT ; Yrjo TT
• Description:
  Occupational risk assessments, critical for identifying hazards such as noise, radiation, and air quality, are challenging due to their complex and often invisible nature. In response, we developed AssessVR, a serious game-based simulation tool, designed to enhance risk assessment skills among students and safety professionals. This study included twenty-seven students from three US universities, all of whom had completed a module on Occupational Hearing Loss and risk assessment in an Industrial Hygiene course. These students were assigned to either the Utilitarian or Gamified version of AssessVR for a risk assessment case study. The results indicated that students using the Gamified version of AssessVR tended to perform better in specific risk assessment areas, such as Exposure Assessment and Reference to Exposure Standards. However, this improvement was not uniform across all evaluation metrics. These findings suggest that while AssessVR, particularly its Gamified form, has potential in risk assessment skill acquisition, its effectiveness varies across different assessment areas. This underscores the need for further research and development in serious game-based simulations to optimize their role in enhancing occupational hazards management competencies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Hazard Recognition Occupational Hazards Risk Assessment Safety Research Simulation Methods Virtual Reality
• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  172
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069483
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2024 Apr; 172:106402
• Contact Point Address:
  Nir Keren, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Iowa State University, 2408 Wanda Daley Dr., Ames, IA 50011, USA
• Email:
  nir@iastate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Science
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:edb21c38d13a6bde92750e63d085ed2a9779664fd74e4504bd9fb2a62c443ee779a8f33dd919f374de1b994b465a243e01fb0773bca5af65454f43e9cd086446
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207918/cdc_207918_DS1.pdf
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