What the data actually says about safety training.
Peer-reviewed research, field studies, and practical guides — the material behind the claims made throughout this site.
Practical articles on HSE training, written from experience.
How Much Time and Cost Does VR Training Actually Save?
An interactive calculator built on PwC's published research — see the time and cost position for your own workforce size.
5 Reasons Why Companies Should Consider VR as a Learning Tool
The research case for immersive training over e-learning — and the cost case most people don't expect.
VIRSAT Showcases Innovative Virtual Reality Safety Training Solutions at ADIPEC 2024
Virtual Reality Safety Training (VIRSAT) is proud to participate in ADIPEC for the third consecutive year, where they showcased their state-of-art Virtual Reality innovative products.
Virtual Reality Driving Simulator
Good Technology Creates Great Safety - Exploring the world's first driving simulator to complement graded on-the-road training.
VIRSAT Brings New Virtual Reality Training in ADIPEC
Virtual Reality Safety Training (VIRSAT) is pleased to announce its participation in ADIPEC to launch a set of its new Virtual Reality innovations and products.
VR Games: A New Way to Make Work Significantly Safer
What makes gamified safety training actually work, not just feel novel.
VR Games: A New Way to Create Significant Safety Impact
How VR can be used to create improved safety training for the workforce and impact companies' safety performance.
Will newly-developed VR training for drivers help reduce fatal road incidents in the Middle East?
Fatal road safety incidents in a number of Middle East countries like Oman, UAE, and KSA are a major cause of fatalities in companies and society as a whole.
How to Impress Your Visitors with a Sophisticated Safety Induction on the Life-Saving Rules
The history of the Life-Saving Rules, and how to introduce them well to a new site or visitor.
A New and Innovative Way to Train Contractor Workers on Fatal HSE Risks
Contractors carry a disproportionate share of fatal incidents. Here's the data, and what to do about it.
Peer-reviewed, not just claimed.
VIRSAT's methodology is grounded in published, externally reviewed research — including studies co-authored with real operators putting it into practice.
Transforming Driver Safety Training in the Oil & Gas Industry through Virtual Reality
Co-authored with an oil & gas operator in Muscat, Oman — a real deployment, not a lab study, applying the Life-Saving Rules field-study base to driver safety specifically.
A Big Oil Company's Approach to Significantly Reduce Fatal Incidents
The original Life-Saving Rules field study: lost time injury frequency down 40%, fatal accident rate down 71% within three years, against an industry-wide average of 39% over the same period.
Transforming Driver Safety Training in the Oil and Gas Industry through Virtual Reality
Presented at the Road Safety on Five Continents conference (Leeds) — road-safety-specific research directly relevant to Middle East driver fatality patterns.
Development of a Six Degrees of Freedom Simulator for Desert Driving Training
SPE-220265-MS, presented at the 2024 SPE International HSE & Sustainability Conference — co-authored with OQ, Oman, and VIRSAT's Dick Nijen Twilhaar. Describes the Graded Road DrivingSimulator™, the world's first driving simulator built for graded roads.
PC vs. VR lab trial — HabitsAWARE & HabitsPRO
A controlled crossover trial at Delft University of Technology: bachelor students with no prior topic knowledge each experienced both the PC and VR versions of HabitsAWARE and HabitsPRO. VR scored higher on emotional connection, engagement, recall, and willingness to recommend it, with PC holding an edge only on ease of use. A separate icon-recognition test found 90% accuracy (57 of 63 answers).