Serious Games Case Study: Health & Safety Executive

As part of a series of short multimedia packages created for the HSE, I developed a virtual assessment package which allowed a trainee assessor to walk around a building site and look at potential dangers, flagging up any when seen.

The assessor could zero in on areas, for example they could:

• Check ladders are tethered
• Check scaffolding is correctly constructed and tagged
• Watch workmen on equipment

At the end of the assessment the package would score the trainee and then give them a number of ‘what if’ animations showing the damage that would happen if the dangers were not seen.