Abstract
Aim: This article shows the way of using virtual simulation in the process of training safety procedures of selected services associated with the used facility based on the example of an airport terminal in Modlin.
Introduction: One way to maintain high efficiency and effectiveness of services is to exercise conduct procedures in real conditions. This can lead to conflicts of interest with the users of the facility, who can treat these training and improvement activities as viable rescue operations, which would lead to crisis situations that are difficult to predict and control. An alternative solution is to perform exercises in virtual reality, which minimizes the risk of damage or destruction of the used equipment.
Methodology: The article presents the possibility to use a virtual simulator for exercises related to rescue and firefighting training (RG) and activities of other services based on the example of pyrotechnics. Exercises are targeted to the specific nature of activities at the airport terminal building based on the example of the airport in Modlin. Discussion was carried out on the basis of the results of the project “Virtual system of enhancing the tactics of national border protection and border traffic control” financed by the National Research and Development Centre (contract no. DOBR/0023/R/ID3/2013/03).
Conclusions: Using virtual simulators to support training, one can achieve the following benefits: reducing the cost of training, performing exercises in situations which are very difficult to recreate in reality; performing exercises in situations which are impossible to be recreated in reality due to high costs or high risk for the trainees; opportunity to practice the efficiency of procedures and to verify new procedures, and the opportunity to practice using equipment which has not yet been produced.
Keywords: simulation, virtual reality, training, pyrotechnics
Type of article: short scientific report