Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency-Human Resources Development Service, business agreement to promote VR education for foreign workers

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea announced on the 11th that they signed a business agreement to promote a project to provide virtual reality (VR)-based industrial safety experience training to foreign workers before entering the country.

The two industrial complexes and the embassies of 16 countries sending foreign workers signed an agreement to prevent industrial accidents for foreign workers in 2022.

Based on the agreement at the time, this agreement was prepared by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency and the Human Resources Development Service to determine follow-up implementation matters, including supply and operation of local VR education devices and inspection of education effectiveness.

The two organizations agreed to cooperate over the next two years in the following areas: ▲ promoting VR-based industrial safety experiential education before foreign workers enter the country ▲ supporting local supply and installation and operation of VR educational equipment ▲ providing equipment utilization and operation management training to local education personnel ▲ piloting VR experiential education and checking its effectiveness.

The Occupational Safety and Health Agency and the Human Resources Development Service announced that they will closely review the operational performance and training effects of this pilot project and seek ways to expand the business and cooperate with other sending countries in the future.