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Nuria Fuentes has verified the training and awareness potential of vehicle driving simulators and occupational risk situations
Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) are recreating with virtual reality techniques work accidents to identify their causes and the measures to be taken to avoid them or reduce the human and material damages they cause, according to the Director General of Relations Labor and Social Economy, Nuria Fuentes
The research group on New Devices of Safety in Machines has developed infrared windows and thermographic cameras to avoid entrapments, automatic roll-over arches for tractors, simulators of driving of work vehicles and situations of occupational risk.
"Our goal for the next few years is to use virtual reality to investigate occupational accidents by recreating with the greatest possible fidelity how they occurred and creating alternative scenarios with which to parameterize the main causes of the event and to be able to measure the probability of victims occurring according to the use or non-use of security measures, "explains Isidro Ibarra, group coordinator.
"Living in first-person environments in danger and being able to make decisions about the risks they take, feeling the consequences of accidents, impacts you much more than a video or a reading about work safety," says Lola Ojados, responsible for virtual simulations .
"You have printed," confirmed Nuria Fuentes, after recreating the accident of a worker falling from a scaffold.
"We are going to promote training sessions with the UPCT simulators for companies and occupational risk technicians," said the director general, who has accompanied the director of the Institute of Information Technology at CEDIT of the Polytechnic in Fuente Álamo. Safety and Health at Work, Daniel Mazón, and the Vice Rector of Research, Beatriz Miguel.
The advances of this group have recently been recognized in two international congresses, held in Singapore and in the Portuguese city of Braganza, with prizes for its simulator of driving tractors with immersive virtual reality for training in prevention of occupational hazards using roll-over bows.
The development has also received awards in Colombia and Chile.
In the coming days, engineers of the College of Agronomists will be trained in occupational safety using the simulators and prototype automatic arc of the UPCT, which is deployed in three tenths of a second when the device warns that the vehicle suffers an inclination higher than 42 degrees .
Spin-off companies
The Director of Labor Relations and Social Economy has also taken advantage of her visit to CEDIT of the UPCT in the Technological Park to meet spin-off companies of the Polytechnic, created by its researchers, such as Ingeniatic, which markets the photomontage equipment for events SmileYou.
"It is a surprise and a pride to discover that a technology that we see in many weddings is Murcia and comes from the UPCT," said Nuria Fuentes, before learning that the company has six workers in Fuente Álamo and delegates distributed throughout Spain.
Source: UPCT
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