We have chosen a scoping review to capture the current content of virtual reality (VR) for safety training in occupational safety and health within post-disaster response settings, focusing on responders and workers. It integrates findings to inform evidence-based approaches, occupational safety and health risk factors, and recommended research and interventions. For this scoping review we followed the PRISMA scoping review guidelines to ensure that our approach is methodologically sound (Scoping, n.d.). We conducted our search across these databases: PubMed, ProQuest Central, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and ERIC. The search included articles published in English between January 1, 2015, and December 2025, with abstracts and full-texts available. From the five databases, a total of 2,202 articles were identified. The final search terms for each database were: Post Disaster Response, post-disaster response workers, post-disaster response volunteer, occupational safety, virtual reality, VR, virtual reality training, and disaster training. We followed the PRISMA guidelines during data extraction, synthesis, and presentation of results. Afterwards, a narrative analysis will be conducted on the data matrix prepared from the studies included in this scoping review.
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