How a remote Qld council used VR to keep staff safe during lockdown

The council CEO, Clare Keenan, said the solution came “just in time”.

“A lot of our staff were getting to the point where they needed refresher courses on their training, it was just a quirk of timing,” Ms Keenan said.

“We couldn’t get trainers to come to us because they would have had to quarantine for two weeks, which wasn’t ideal.”

The training was mostly around safety in scenarios affecting council workers, including working at heights, enclosed spaces and working with chainsaws.

Next World chief executive Michael O’Reilly said the retention rate of the information in VR training was far higher than in traditional training methods, especially ones with no practical component.

“The purpose of training is to retain…