Why you should use 3D Animated Videos for Safety Training in the Workplace
Safety training in the workplace is a vital part of many industries. There are many potential health and safety risks particularly in the mining industry, and the oil and gas industry. In the past, safety and training videos were most often real life simulations of dangerous scenarios and situations using actors, props and a production team.
This method has a lot of set backs which is why 3D animation is fast becoming the medium of choice to provide cost effective and engaging safety and training videos.
> 3D Safety Training Animation
Now that 3D animation is easily accessible to the general public, and more and more marketing and media companies are offering 3D animation services, so many industries can benefit.
3D animations for safety and training videos are particularly advantageous in the mining, oil and gas industries for many reasons.
> 3D Safety Training Animation Videos are cost effective
In order to realistically and effectively educate staff about dangerous situations and how they can be avoided or resolved, a safety training video would need to clearly show visuals of locations where they may happen. The costs involved with transporting production teams or staff to and from sites for real time training can be extremely high.
If your company is looking to create a real life safety training video, you would need to budget for a number of factors. A production team alone would include the use of actors (possibly stunt actors), audio and visual equipment, and props. You may also need to pay to use high risk sites such as mining sites, rigs and refineries for filming.
An alternative would be taking staff to sites for real life safety and training demonstrations. While you may not have to pay as much for a production team, you’ll still need to pay for staff transportation, actors, and props.
Both of these options can be expensive, time consuming and complicated.
3D animation is a great alternative to these methods of safety training. Hiring a 3D animation studio completely removes the need for actors, real locations, dangerous stunts, and doesn’t require any travelling. Staff can be trained without leaving the business premises. For a much lower cost, 3D animated safety training videos can easily and realistically demonstrate any potential health and safety hazards, and train staff on how to safely resolve or avoid these situations.
> 3D Animation Safety and Training Videos eliminate risk.
Another problem with using real life safety training videos is the high risks involved in their production. While these videos are crucial for high risk industries in minimising hazardous occurrences, they can pose their own dangers
Think about some scenarios that would require safety training in the mining, oil and gas industries. situations may include:
- Working at Heights
- Hazardous Materials (chemicals, gases, flammable materials)
- Confined Spaces (mines, refineries)
- Heavy Machinery
- Fires and Explosions
- High Risk Environments (mines, refineries)
Not only is it important to demonstrate safety precautions, consequences of not adhering to safety protocols are just as important to know. Of course, the more realistic the videos are, the more effective they can be, however, some scenarios are just too dangerous to film in real life. A mine collapsing, or an oil rig becoming engulfed in flames. These are very real dangers, which is why using 3D animation is a highly effective, risk free method of conducting safety training.
> 3D Animation for Safety Training is engaging.
One of the biggest hurdles companies encounter when it comes to safety training induction is ensuring that important information is communicated in an in-depth yet engaging and relatively simple manner. When a video is boring or difficult to grasp, the audience will lose interest and likely fail to retain vital safety training information. Because of the importance of safety training in the mining, oil and gas industry, failure to communicate is not an option.
3D animation effectively illustrates technical, complex, and even abstract information in a realistic, visually pleasing, and simple way. In addition, voiceovers, close-ups, and other aspects of these videos can be customised and tailored for any industry.
Check out our blog: Why you need a health and safety video in the workplace.
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