Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment (HIRA) VR training for chemicals in Ahmedabad.

DrillXR Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment trains the single most transferable safety skill, the ability to look at a workplace and actually see its hazards, on a walk-through of a virtual plant. The simulation reproduces the failures that undermine real risk assessment: hazards that go unrecognised because they have been normalised, likelihood or severity that is underestimated, controls chosen out of hierarchy order, and residual risk that is left unmanaged after the obvious step is taken. The trainee works the HIRA procedure, walking the area and identifying the hazards present, assessing the likelihood and severity of each, ranking the risks to prioritise them, selecting controls in line with the hierarchy of control, and recording findings and assigning actions. Because hazard perception is a trained eye rather than a memorised list, the headset is built to develop that eye in a realistic, consequence-free setting.

Risk assessment is the foundation that every other control sits on, and a flawed HIRA propagates danger through everything downstream. The Factories Act 1948 places occupier duties to provide and maintain safe systems of work, which assumes hazards have been identified and assessed, a site HIRA or risk-assessment procedure formalises how that assessment is done and recorded, and the BOCW Act 1996 carries the equivalent obligation across construction sites. The common failure is not a missing form but a workforce that has stopped noticing the hazard they pass every day, or an assessor who reaches for PPE when elimination or engineering control was available. DrillXR puts the trainee into a plant seeded with real hazards and scores whether they spot them, rank them honestly and choose controls in the right order, building the discipline a blank template cannot.