Abstract
Recent advances in training approaches and technology have identified the need to improve training in the field of occupational safety and health (OSH). While many researchers have examined the use of augmented reality (AR) and technology-based classrooms to enhance conventional training practices, quantitative evidence for their effectiveness and motivational im-pact remains scarce. To contribute to filling this research gap, an AR-based application was developed to enhance OSH training. The enhanced training session was conducted in a closed, safe environment with ten participants with no background in OSH. Pre-test, post-test, and instructional material motivation surveys (IMMS) using a five-point Likert scale were deployed to measure the effectiveness and motivational impact in accordance with the respective ARCS factors. The empirical results obtained show that partici-pants performed significantly better in the post-tests than in the pre-tests (mean = 14.60, s = 1.71, t(9) = –12.11 with p-value < 0.001). The IMMS re-sults show that the perceived motivation arising from the AR-based applica-tion resulted in the highest mean score for the satisfaction factor (4.80) fol-lowed by the relevance (4.65), confidence (4.60), and attention (4.55) fac-tors. The results of the evaluation suggest that the AR-based application boosted participants’ active learning behavior, engagement, and interest dur-ing the enhanced training session and produced a better learning outcome and experience.
Highlights
Occupational accidents are unpredictable and unintentional events that may cause harm to the equipment, and injury or death to employees
The central problem to be highlighted is the inefficiency of current occupational safety and health (OSH) training practices, though the subject matter is highly relevant to all members of an institution [2]
The results section is divided into two sections, which are the effectiveness test and the motivational impact
Summary
Occupational accidents are unpredictable and unintentional events that may cause harm to the equipment, and injury or death to employees. There is a pressing need to try a different approach to seeking improvements to the current training system and methodology to establish a safer and healthier workplace environment [5]. As OSH training is regarded as dull and stagnant despite its importance [9], there is a need for this training to be better implemented [10], which would increase workers’ and employees’ motivation to learn. Under these circumstances, the following research questions were established: 1. Training intervention is considered a method of risk control designed to improve workers’ knowledge, skills, and attitude concerning workplace hazards and safe, healthy working practices. This statistic revealed that tremendous effort has been made by stakeholders to put the workforce on the training roster while demonstrating the importance of training to the country's economy and the development of the nation's most important assets - its people
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