STRIM - Safety Training with Real Immersivity for Mining

As you finish reading this sentence, do you know how many workers died in mines around the world?Mining has always been a vital economic and social activity since pre-historic times. Providing valuable resources for the survival and the well-being of a considerable part of humanity. Although it is a crucial activity, it ranks as one of the most dangerous working sectors. And still has a negative image within society. When an injury occurs at a workplace it comes at a cost, not just in the suffering of the injured person, but also direct and indirect costs for the company and society.Large mining companies are talking about goals such as “Zero Harm”. To achieve a Zero Harm environment two main measures should be done, one obvious method is continuously identifying, eliminating or reducing risks at the risk management stage. The other essential method is training workers to deal with the risks in a risk-free environment, for instance using Virtual Reality and Augmented reality (VR\AR) equipment to mimic the mining environment. Safety Training with Real Immersivity for Mining (STRIM) arises from the synergy between higher education institutions and mining companies providing tools to improve occupational health and safety (OSH) conditions and implementation of coherent and comprehensive educational approaches for mining sector. With the help of implementation smart technologies in proper training, these tools will improve capacity building, modernisation of universities and to provide safety-oriented culture.This proposed KA aims at enhancing knowledge exchange through an effective collaboration between researchers in the fields of Occupational hygiene, safety and health in and environment in Mining Engineering.The project aims to modernize the educational programs of HEIs in African countries. As well as add master programs in OSH.