Hyundai Engineering & Construction said on the 18th that it opened a dedicated safety experience training center to prevent industrial accidents at the Shin-Hanul Units 3 and 4 construction site.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction held an opening ceremony for the safety experience training center on the 14th at the Shin-Hanul Units 3 and 4 construction site in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. The event was attended by Lim Byeong-cheon, head of safety planning at Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Lee Se-yong, head of the Hanul Nuclear Power Headquarters, and officials from partner firms.
The Shin-Hanul Units 3 and 4 safety experience training center is the first stand-alone, dedicated safety education space built at a construction site in Korea. It is designed to let participants directly experience high-risk situations focused on accident types that occur frequently at construction sites and build response capabilities.
The center consists of five zones—fire safety zone, safety inspection zone, confined space safety zone, emergency rescue zone, and virtual safety zone—and operates a total of 13 experience programs. Along with safety training for accident types such as falls, suffocation, fires, and electric shocks, it also offers health training including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use.
In particular, the virtual safety zone features 4D Extended Reality (XR) experience facilities, multi-user simultaneous Virtual Reality (VR), and Apple Vision Pro. Using Head Mounted Display (HMD) equipment, participants can experience construction site accident scenarios through immersive content.
In the safety inspection zone, training covers inspection methods and accident case studies for work involving horse scaffolds, ladders, and slinging, while the emergency rescue zone offers hands-on CPR and AED training.
An official at Hyundai Engineering & Construction said, "We created a hands-on safety education space so workers can personally experience real risk situations and build response capabilities," adding, "We will operate it as an open industrial safety education platform in partnership with the local community and strengthen a prevention-centered safety management system."
Meanwhile, Hyundai Engineering & Construction is also operating a mobile hands-on training program called "Safety Culture Hub." Using VR-based content, it is designed to let participants experience major high-risk tasks such as slinging, confined spaces, electricity, and construction equipment, and it is being operated on a nationwide tour of worksites.