We didn't just adopt the safety standard. We wrote it.
Most safety-training vendors build content around a standard someone else created. VIRSAT's Life-Saving Rules training is built by the people who wrote the standard in the first place.
The IOGP Life-Saving Rules — now used across the oil & gas industry worldwide — were initiated and established by one of VIRSAT's own founders.
Before they were an industry standard adopted by IOGP, the Life-Saving Rules were research: a study of historic fatal incidents, translated into a small set of rules field workers could actually use. That research became the basis for a 71% fatality reduction within three years of rollout at one major operator — and it's the same foundation VIRSAT's training is built on today.
Three co-founders. One shared mission.
Willem, Dick, and Bassam founded VIRSAT together — bonded by a shared passion for safety strategy and technological innovation. VIRSAT's road safety work in particular is published, peer-reviewed research, co-authored by the people who actually did it.
Published co-author on VIRSAT's driving safety research, including "Development of a Six Degrees of Freedom Simulator for Desert Driving Training" (SPE-220265-MS, 2024 SPE International HSE & Sustainability Conference), co-authored with OQ, Oman. Also published earlier research on In-Vehicle Monitoring Systems, now widely used across the oil & gas industry.
Specializes in road safety and In-Vehicle Monitoring Systems (IVMS) — the data behind identifying high-risk driving behavior before it causes an incident, and a discipline directly built into the training on the Graded Road DrivingSimulator™ and Driving Pro Black Top™.
Deployed, not just piloted.
Deployment of VIRSAT's Process Safety™ training, built on the IOGP Process Safety Fundamentals.
Rollout of both Life-Saving HabitsAWARE™ and Life-Saving HabitsPRO™ across the workforce.
A complete road safety training center — equipment and software — including the Graded Road DrivingSimulator™.
A rejuvenation project bringing an existing Life-Saving Rules program back to full effectiveness.
Depth of expertise most training vendors don't have.
The evidence behind the training is peer-reviewed.
The original Life-Saving Rules field study
Co-authored with an oil & gas company in Oman
Road safety research, Leeds conference
Development of a Six Degrees of Freedom Simulator for Desert Driving Training
PC vs. VR lab trial
Based in Abu Dhabi. Built for the Middle East.
VIRSAT's training center in Abu Dhabi is where most of this gets proven out — a place to walk in and try the training and HeadSafe before committing to a rollout.
Marina Square, Al Reem Island
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Plano, Texas 75093