IMOSHION - Improving Occupational Safety & Health in European SMEs with the help of Simulation and Virtual Reality
IMOSHION is a 3-year EU-funded research project running from March 2011 - February 2014.
The aims of the IMOSHION project are to:
- stimulate awareness of OSH issues in European SMEs
- support adherence to OSH through training, operation, planning and design of workplaces
- provide low-cost and easy to use specific tools.
The IMOSHION technology to be developed during the project is a set of tools which utilise modern simulation and virtual reality techniques. The tools will be:
- an OSH knowledge and learning management system
- a workplace simulation for experimenting and training on OSH issues
- an immersive training and learning tool for OSH procedures, and
- a planning tool for OSH prevention at workstation and workplace levels.
The project is implemented by 10 partners from 6 European countries that have a common interest in improving working conditions in small and medium sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. The project focuses on two aspects:
- On the one hand it collects existing knowledge and creates new information concerning OSH issues.
- On the other hand it wants to develop tools and techniques to raise awareness and improve OSH in SMEs.
For more information, visit the IMOSHION website or email Sally Shalloe.