A hub of interactive training resources to support workplace health and safety.
Play It Safe is committed to creating interactive, video-based training resources that are tailor-made to address specific industry issues. Our team uses a participatory design process which ensures that every training resource is user-centric, true to life, and creative.
User-centric
Our team is in constant collaboration with end-users, ensuring that every training resource is useful, engaging and relevant to industry needs.
True to life
Our training resources feature authentic characters, locations and situations, allowing users to experience and learn in an immersive digital environment.
Creative
Our team offers creative solutions to industry problems, utilising cutting edge technology and storytelling to enhance learning.
Why interactive training?
There are several benefits of using interactive video-based training over traditional approaches:
- Interactive digital training allows users to experience situations and experiment with solutions in a risk-free way, preparing them for the real challenges at work.
- Digital game-based learning can create stronger emotional, cognitive and behavioural connections with training content, increasing participant engagement and improving learning outcomes.
- Interactive videos and games can be powerful learning tools for young, digitally literate learners, who are accustomed to a media-rich environment for communication and information processing.
Recent projects
Breaking the Silence, Building Respect
This training resource is an interactive video focusing on workplace harassment in the construction industry. The training depicts ways of preventing, mitigating and responding to various forms of workplace harassment.
This training was funded by the Telematics Trust.
Conversations About Life, Health, and Safety
This training resource consists of three interactive scenarios which demonstrate the importance of open and respectful communication in construction workplaces. Each scenario has several possible outcomes which are determined by the decisions of the player.
This training was funded by icare.
Our process
The Play It Safe design process ensures that all training resources are evidence-informed and fit for purpose at launch. The process involves four stages: data collection, concept development, content creation and impact evaluation.
Data collection
This first stage involves gaining a deep understanding of the issues which the training will address. This may involve interviews with industry end users, and/or literature reviews, ensuring the project is appropriately positioned from its inception.
Concept development
In the second stage, high level design decisions are made about what kind of interactive media will best address the issues at hand. Here, concept development and interactive elements will be devised and the visual style of the media will be developed.
Content creation
The third stage is the creation of the training resources. This may involve scripting and storyboarding as well as ongoing industry consultations to ensure the content is fit for purpose. The interactive media is then filmed, edited, and coded to the needs of the project.
Impact evaluation
The final stage involves evaluating the training resources to test their effectiveness in an industry context. This may involve trials with end users followed by surveys, interviews or focus groups. If any alterations to the training resources are required, they can be made at this stage.
Development of the Play It Safe Hub was partly supported by RMIT’s Enabling Impact Platforms. If you are interested in working with Play It Safe or want to know more, please contact us.
Key contacts
Distinguished Professor Helen Lingard
Phone: +61 3 9925 2230
Email: helen.lingard@rmit.edu.au
Associate Professor Rita Peihua Zhang
Phone: +61 3 9925 3906
Email: rita.zhang@rmit.edu.au
