Hand Safety

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Experience Overview
- 24 minutes run time (including VR tutorial)
- Student completion records
- VR training certificates
- Training results
- Behavioral metrics
- Response times
- Training groups
- Scheduling
- Set refresher training frequency
- Modelled from Unit of Competency: BSBWHS211
Train your team to protect their most valuable tools, their hands, by recognizing risks before they reach out and bite.
This immersive warehouse-based experience teaches participants how to proactively avoid one of the most common and devastating workplace injuries: hand trauma. Through practical scenarios and reactive environments, trainees learn to identify high-risk tasks, assess dangers, and apply the right controls in the moment.
Hand injuries are fast, painful, and often life-altering—and they’re almost always preventable.
Participants work through high-risk environments where they must:
- Identify common hand safety hazards in warehouse and industrial settings.
- Witness the real-world consequences of unsafe practices like bypassing guards or wearing incorrect PPE.
- Apply the Hierarchy of Controls and Risk Assessment Matrix to reduce risk.
- Select and implement appropriate control measures to protect against lacerations, breaks, and amputations.
This hands-on training builds reflexive awareness and safe work habits, equipping your team to keep their hands out of harm’s way, every shift, every task.
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Learning Outcomes

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Identify Hand-Related Hazards in the Workplace:
- Recognize hazards involving pinch points, moving machinery, sharp objects, chemical exposure, and dropped objects.
- Understand real-world risks including lacerations, burns, entrapment, crush injuries, and entanglement.
Learn Correct Use of PPE:
- Distinguish between glove types (e.g. cut-resistant, rubber, heat-resistant) and their appropriate applications.
- Understand risks of wearing inappropriate gloves or neglecting PPE altogether.
Apply Safe Work Practices:
- Follow correct manual handling techniques and maintain situational awareness.
- Remove jewelry and secure loose clothing when operating machinery.
- Use the correct tools and methods for tasks like cutting, lifting, or operating heat-based equipment.
Understand and Apply Lockout-Tagout Procedures:
- Safely isolate equipment before conducting maintenance or inspections to avoid accidental activation.
Develop Situational Awareness and Hazard Assessment Skills
- Continuously assess hand and finger placement.
- Understand how environment and distraction can lead to preventable hand injuries.
- Recognize when a task is unsafe or when equipment should be reported or tagged out
A. Tutorial Phase
- Introduction to using the VR tablet and camera to capture hazards.
- Familiarization with core interaction mechanics.
B. Discovery Phase
- Multiple-choice questions build foundational knowledge
- Hand positioning
- Glove types
- Procedures for faulty equipment
C. Instructional Phase
- Guided walkthrough of hazardous scenarios:
- Participants observe, document, and fix dangerous hand-related situations.
- Each hazard is followed by an explanation and demonstration of the safer approach.
D. Practice Phase
- Learners evaluate new scenarios independently:
- Identify whether each situation is hazardous or safe.
- Submit photos of hazards or mark safe activities using the tablet.
E. Exam Phase
- Unguided workplace inspection:
- Learners identify hazards on their own, capture evidence, and answer situational questions.
- Includes safe and unsafe scenarios to assess judgement and accuracy.
F. Results and Feedback
- Learners receive a breakdown of correct, incorrect, and missed hazards.
- Encourages reflection and reinforces key hand safety principles.
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CONTACT USWhat is Custom VR Builds?
It’s a service where Next World creates a fully tailored VR-training solution for your company — a custom course built to meet your industry-specific requirements rather than using a generic off-the-shelf VR module.
How does the custom-build process work?
The process typically follows these phases: you provide training documentation, subject-matter experts get involved, learning outcomes are identified, storyboard is created, virtual assets are modeled, testing and quality assurance, and finally deployment in your environment.
What type of training scenarios can be built?
You can build VR scenarios for hazard awareness, safe-practice with tools and equipment, practicing safety procedures step-by-step, and even testing learner’s knowledge in simulated hazardous situations — as if in real life but safe.
Is custom VR suitable for refresher training as well?
Yes — custom VR builds can be used for refresher/training-update courses to efficiently refresh skills and knowledge without re-arranging real equipment or putting people at risk.
What learning methodology does custom VR follow?
Next World suggests a blended approach: combining face-to-face, practical and immersive training methods, which helps improve retention, practical competence, and reduces incidents.