Emerging technologies for learning in occupational safety and health: the experience of the videogame “Becoming safe”

[EN] In the paths for transversal skills and orientation (PCTO), italian students are considered like workers and therefore they must receive adequate information and training on occupational safety and health (OSH). These methods allow the students not to be excluded from the preventive measures of the health and safety at work by directing them towards self-protection.Today, this process can be supported through the use of digital tools such as videogames. The study describes a participative research and co-design work in 7 Italian high schools of agricultural, construction and manufacturing sectors, in order to co-create an educational tool (videogame) to promote OSH during the PCTO. The format could be a support for training and usable both in the classroom and in internship, according to the indications for the serious game’s design.The study applied qualitative and quantitative methods: survey (277 students), word cafés/focus groups (50 students), 10 semi-structured interviews and 3 WhatsApp groups (12 students) to facilitate the participation and the engagement of teachers, students and OSH experts. Learning by playing has always been an activity, technologies today make it easy and funny, while gaming can offer cognitive and operational elements suitable for recognizing and therefore preventing the occupational risks.Pietrafesa, E.; Bentivenga, R.; Stabile, S. (2021). Emerging technologies for learning in occupational safety and health: the experience of the videogame “Becoming safe”. En 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'21). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1011-1018. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.12936OCS1011101

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Through the work-based learning (WBL), students carry out part of their formative curriculum into working contexts, so that the traditional learning, linked to the individual disciplines, is renovating into a new path that includes informal and non-formal competences. Technology is progressively more used to support innovative teaching that allows young people to acquire new skills to meet the needs of the changing labor market. The study describes a participative research and co-design work realized into seven Italian high schools in the agricultural, construction and manufacturing sectors, to co-create an educational tool (videogame) in order to promote occupational safety and health (OSH). The study applied qualitative and quantitative methods to facilitate the participation and the engagement of teachers and students. Learning by playing has always been an activity, today technologies and gaming can offer cognitive and operational elements suitable for recognizing and therefore preventing the occupational risks

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