Evaluation of an Immersive VR-based Chemical Production Safety Learning Using a Transferable Psychosomatic Approach

Considering effective transfer of knowledge and skills in chemical production safety, virtual reality (VR) technology is adopted to build training platform of safety operation. This study focuses on shortening the breach between the highly demanded human-machine interactions and the learning approaches utilized in process engineering by experimentally evaluating the effectiveness of different learning approaches in an image-based unusual state. The trainees' performance are assessed through quantifiable measures, learning efficacy and performance, used for the specific objectives. The result reveals that testable training in VR for complicated safety-specific activities is not statistically different from the conventional lecture mode. But VR learning shows an appreciable positive enhancements in participants' perceptions of entire learning and their existence on task during the training. Also, it reveals that the knowledge retention rate of video -based lecturing can be over-valuated if left unchecked. The positive results of this method lie in improving the dependability, reducing damage costs and enhancing safety performance in chemical operation process.