Properly trained staff is of a paramount importance in order to ensure safe and sustainable plant operations and it represents one of the most critical elements of the Process Safety Management standards.
Statistics indicate that the main cause of accidents in the power, process and marine industry today is still a human error as well as that the current generation of facility workers is aging and approaching the end of their working careers while a younger generation of new employees enters the plant's workforce. Today there are available technologies and best practices that can reduce to a minimum the time and resources needed to recreate an environment suitable for training and simulations out of a purely virtual 3D (CAD) model or a comprehensively laser-scanned 3D model of the facility. This article describes the latest state of art information technology allowing for early, fast, and cost effective 3D based simulation and training environment and its practical applicability.
