Safety using Augmented reality to Facilitate Effective Training and Education (SAFE-TE). The objective of SAFE-TE is to support workers being trained to work with hazardous materials more efficiently

项目总结/摘要 《职业安全与健康法》（OSHA）的制定是为了保护工人，防止与工作有关的 受伤OSHA标准包括明确的安全和健康培训要求，以确保工人 需要具备安全工作所需的技能和知识。Benten Technologies正在与 International Brotherhood of Teamsters（IBT）帮助危险品/危险废物行业的工人获得 安全有效地完成工作所需的培训。Benten将开发增强现实（AR）/混合 一个名为“利用增强现实促进有效培训和教育的安全”的MR平台 （SAFE-TE），“加强与课堂和实践培训相结合的培训， 比传统的更有效率、更有效、更吸引人。平台将具有可编程/可配置 环境中使用蓝牙信标和基准标记，以最初提供HAZWOPER初始危险 废物处理工人培训计划，允许教师为个人进行模拟现实世界的培训， 处理危险材料和废物。创新的AR移动的平台将允许IBT进行 已经成功的培训危险材料工人的培训计划，轻松。SAFE-TE的目标 是支持正在接受培训的工人，使他们能够更安全、更有效地处理危险材料。 方法：SAFE-TE最初将由Benten Technologies利用培训脚本进行设计和开发 和IBT提供的课程。这一战略基础改革措施的具体目标是： 1.开发集成商业组件的原型SAFE-TE平台，例如Estimote的 蓝牙信标和三星硬件，用于工作环境中的培训。 2.进行SAFE-TE的可用性试点测试，以测试AR培训的有效性，20名学员和5名 与使用道具的实际操作相比，教师应增加实际操作培训。 AR在HAZMAT/HAZWASTE培训中的力量将对该行业产生变革性影响，因为它 将彻底改变培训的许多方面，从设计和创造到如何进行。它将允许， 由讲师指导并创建的培训场景融入了AR技术，以实现混合现实培训 准确反映工人在危险废物现场或在 危险品运输。AR训练将允许使用交互式训练进行逼真的训练，因此 工人在他们将要工作的环境中学习他们需要的相关信息。这将有助于 知识，技能和能力保留，并允许工人以后参考材料，因为他们 我需要它，因为它都是数字存储的。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was formed to protect workers and prevent work-related injuries. OSHA standards include explicit safety and health training requirements to ensure that the workers have required skills and knowledge to do their work safely. Benten Technologies is partnering with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) to help workers in the HAZMAT/HAZWASTE indusry gain the training they need to do their job safely and effectively. Benten will develop an Augmented reality (AR)/Mixed reality (MR) platform called “Safety using Augmented reality to Facilitate Effective Training and Education (SAFE-TE),” that enhances training in combination with classroom and practical training, and that is more efficient, effective and engaging than the traditional one. The platform will have programmable/configurable environment using Bluetooth beacons and fiducial markers to initially deliver the HAZWOPER Initial Hazardous Waste Worker training program to allow instructors to conduct simulated real-world training for individuals that work with hazardous materials and wastes. The innovative AR mobile platform will allow IBT to conduct the already successful training hazardous materials worker training program with ease. The objective of SAFE-TE is to support workers being trained, to work with hazardous materials more safely and efficiently. Approach: SAFE-TE will be initially designed and developed by Benten Technologies utilizing training scripts and curriculum provided by the IBT. The specific aims of this SBIR are: 1. Develop the prototype SAFE-TE platform integrating commercial components, such as Estimote’s Bluetooth beacon and Samsung hardware, for training within workplace environments. 2. Conduct a usability pilot test of SAFE-TE to test the effectiveness of AR training with 20 trainees and 5 instructors to augment practical hands-on training when compared with hands-on using props. The power that AR will have in HAZMAT/HAZWASTE training will be transformative for the industry because it will revolutionize many aspects of the training from design and creation to how it is conducted. It will allow for, instructor-led and created training scenarios that incorporate AR technology to allow for mixed-reality training that accurately reflect the types of hazards that the worker may encounter on a HAZWASTE site or during the transportation of hazardous materials. AR training will allow for realistic training using interactive drills, so the workers learn the relevant information they need, in the environment, they will be working in. This will aid in knowledge, skills, and aptitude retention and also allow the workers to reference the material later on as they need it since it will all be stored digitally.