Making High-Risk Construction Sites Safer with Multi-Sensory Immersion
JGC Japan Elevates Construction Safety with Simulanis 4D VR Training
Overview
JGC partnered with Simulanis to develop a first-of-its-kind 4D VR safety training system that recreates high-risk construction scenarios in a safe, immersive environment.
Client:
JGC Corporation, Japan
Use Case:
Safety Training
Industry:
Engineering & Construction
Deployment:
24th November 2023
Site:
Yokohama, Japan (JGC Headquarters)
Platform:
4D Virtual Reality
Leveraging expertise from 150+ enterprises and JGC's support, Simulanis built a custom 4D VR safety training system featuring six high-risk scenarios with immersive haptics, heat, smell, and physical scaffolding.
The Simulanis Solution
Despite stringent safety standards, preparing workers for the realities of high-risk construction sites remained a challenge due to
Problem Statement
High-risk, high-consequence work environments: Workers at JGC's construction sites routinely operate at heights, in confined spaces, and near fire and explosion hazards, where a single lapse in awareness can prove fatal.
Limitations of conventional safety training: Classroom sessions and manuals could describe past accidents, but could not let workers truly experience the danger, urgency, and sensory reality of an incident.
Low retention of safety awareness: Without experiential learning, awareness of common safety standards and previously occurred on-site accidents faded quickly, leaving workers underprepared for real emergencies.
Working at Height
Dropped Object
Fire
Explosion
Traffic Incidents
Confined Space
Modules Delivered
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Feel the Scenario: Full-Spectrum 4D Training Experiences
Beyond visuals, our 4D system layers impact, touch, heat, smell, and wind so trainees build the instincts that classroom decks and standard VR cannot teach.
Feel Scaffold Movement in Real Time
Scaffold Vibration
A haptic feedback system that simulates scaffold instability, structural movement, and environmental vibrations, helping trainees recognize hazards and respond safely while working at height.
Feel the impact of a falling object, safely.
Haptic Helmet
Simulanis' patented VR helmet recreates the percussive shock of dropped tools and debris on the head, so trainees experience the consequence of unsafe zones without the injury.
Operate near process heat without risk.
Heat Effects
Calibrated radiant heat synchronises with the simulation, so trainees feel proximity to hot piping, flares, and process equipment exactly when the virtual scenario demands it.
Smell the leak before you see the alarm.
Smell Simulation
An olfactory module releases controlled industrial scent profiles, training response to chemical leaks, fuel vapours, and combustion well before any visual indicator appears.
Wind load on the scaffold, made tangible.
Wind Feedback
Synchronised airflow recreates gust and crosswind conditions at height, so workers learn to read scaffold sway, secure tools, and adjust posture before stepping onto the platform.
Impact
After 4 months of intensive R&D, experimentation, and testing, Simulanis deployed the complete 4D system at JGC's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, creating one of the world's most realistic and unprecedented safety training experiences.
Multi-Sensory Immersion
Sight, sound, touch, and smell stimulated simultaneously for complete immersion and practical learning.
4 Senses
Common Safety Scenarios
Personal Fall, Dropped Object, Suffocation, Explosion, Fire, and Traffic Incidents covered end to end.
6 Modules
Concept to Deployment
Rapid R&D, hardware integration, and testing delivered at JGC HQ, Yokohama.
4D VR Safety Training
Proprietary hardware, including the Haptic Helmet, integrated with VR for an industry-first experience.
4 Months
World-First
The 4D VR system created by Simulanis lets our workers safely experience the incidents we work hardest to prevent. It is the most engaging and effective safety training we have deployed.
Trusted by Our Clients
- Yususaki Kora
JGC Corporation, Japan
Join leading enterprises leveraging Simulanis to redefine training, boost productivity, and scale immersive learning across teams.
Empower Your Workforce
with the Future of XR
JGC Japan Elevates Construction Safety with Simulanis 4D VR Training
Overview
JGC partnered with Simulanis to develop a first-of-its-kind 4D VR safety training system that recreates high-risk construction scenarios in a safe, immersive environment.
Client:
JGC Corporation, Japan
Industry:
Safety Training
Site:
Yokohama, Japan (JGC Headquarters)
Use Case:
Yokohama, Japan (JGC Headquarters)
Deployment:
24th November 2023
Platform:
4D Virtual Reality
High-risk, high-consequence work environments: Workers at JGC's construction sites routinely operate at heights, in confined spaces, and near fire and explosion hazards, where a single lapse in awareness can prove fatal.
Despite stringent safety standards, preparing workers for the realities of high-risk construction sites remained a challenge due to
Problem Statement
Limitations of conventional safety training: Classroom sessions and manuals could describe past accidents, but could not let workers truly experience the danger, urgency, and sensory reality of an incident.
Low retention of safety awareness: Without experiential learning, awareness of common safety standards and previously occurred on-site accidents faded quickly, leaving workers underprepared for real emergencies.
Leveraging expertise from 150+ enterprises and JGC's support, Simulanis built a custom 4D VR safety training system featuring six high-risk scenarios with immersive haptics, heat, smell, and physical scaffolding.
The Simulanis Solution
Modules Delivered
Working at Height
Dropped Object
Confined Space
Fire
Explosion
Traffic Incidents
Modules Delivered
Working at Height
Dropped Object
Confined Space Suffocation
Fire
Explosion
Traffic Incidents
Overview
Beyond visuals, our 4D system layers impact, touch, heat, smell, and wind so trainees build the instincts that classroom decks and standard VR cannot teach.
Feel the impact of a falling object, safely.
Haptic Helmet
Simulanis' patented VR helmet recreates the percussive shock of dropped tools and debris on the head, so trainees experience the consequence of unsafe zones without the injury.
Feel Scaffold Movement in Real Time
Scaffold Vibration
A haptic feedback system that simulates scaffold instability, structural movement, and environmental vibrations, helping trainees recognize hazards and respond safely while working at height.
Operate near process heat without risk.
Heat Effects
Calibrated radiant heat synchronises with the simulation, so trainees feel proximity to hot piping, flares, and process equipment exactly when the virtual scenario demands it.
Smell the leak before you see the alarm.
Smell Simulation
An olfactory module releases controlled industrial scent profiles, training response to chemical leaks, fuel vapours, and combustion well before any visual indicator appears.
Wind load on the scaffold, made tangible.
Wind Feedback
Synchronised airflow recreates gust and crosswind conditions at height, so workers learn to read scaffold sway, secure tools, and adjust posture before stepping onto the platform.
Feel the Scenario: Full-Spectrum 4D Training Experiences
Impact
After 4 months of intensive R&D, experimentation, and testing, Simulanis deployed the complete 4D system at JGC's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, creating one of the world's most realistic and unprecedented safety training experiences.
Multi-Sensory
Immersion
Sight, sound, touch, and smell stimulated simultaneously for complete immersion and practical learning.
4 Senses
Common Safety Scenarios
Personal Fall, Dropped Object, Suffocation, Explosion, Fire, and Traffic Incidents covered end to end.
6 Modules
Concept to
Deployment
Rapid R&D, hardware integration, and testing delivered at JGC HQ, Yokohama.
4D VR Safety Training
Proprietary hardware, including the Haptic Helmet, integrated with VR for an industry-first experience.
4 Months
World-First
The 4D VR system created by Simulanis lets our workers safely experience the incidents we work hardest to prevent. It is the most engaging and effective safety training we have deployed.
Trusted by Our Clients
- Yususaki Kora
JGC Corporation, Japan
Join leading enterprises leveraging Simulanis to redefine training, boost productivity, and scale immersive learning across teams.
Empower Your Workforce
with the Future of XR
Redefining learning and performance across industries.
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