Occupational accidents in Japan have shown a declining trend since the enactment of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, however the decline have witnessed a stagnation in and the frequency rate of accidents have increased in recent years. Virtual Reality (VR) has garnered attention as a new safety education method to address these challenges. On the other hand, the quantitative evaluation of safety education using VR effects, such as changes in participants' behavior and improvements in organizational performance, is now limited and deficient. Therefore, the present study aims to develop a quantitative evaluation method for VR-based safety education. In the present study, an experiment was conducted to compare VR-based education with traditional text-based methods. In the experiment, it was suggested that VR education may be effective in improving hazard perception compared to traditional methods in certain cases. However, because of the small number of participants the results were not clear. We aim to enhance the reliability of the evaluation methods by increasing the number of participants in future research. Simultaneously, we are planning to improve the hazard perception test through appropriate operational methods and the use of advanced tools. These efforts will seek to maximize the effectiveness of VR-based education and realize more effective safety education.
KITAZAWA et al. (Wed,) studied this question.