The automaker said Wednesday it held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday at the Ulsan plant with about 200 labor and management representatives in attendance, including Choi Young Il, head of domestic production and chief safety and health officer; Jung Won Dae, vice president in charge of production support; and union leaders Lee Jong Cheol and Lee Chang Min.
Set to open in the second half of this year, the H-Safety Experience Center will be a safety media facility covering 280 pyeong on the Ulsan plant site. It will be open to employees, partner-company workers and members of the public.
Hyundai Motor said the center will offer training content using augmented reality, holograms and special effects. It also plans, for the first time among safety experience centers in South Korea, to recreate the Ulsan plant’s real production sites and hazardous situations using projection-mapping technology.
Visitors will move through six zones — a welcome zone, safety zone, traffic safety zone, accident experience zone, risk assessment zone and emotional safety zone — to take part in training built around real-world accident cases.
In the safety zone, visitors will be able to experience a smoke-filled fire scene using special effects. In the accident experience zone, they can watch a life-size forklift collision simulation.
After it opens, Hyundai Motor plans to provide immersive safety training to about 20,000 people a year.
“The H-Safety Experience Center is a symbolic place that shows Hyundai Motor’s commitment to top-level safety,” a company official said. “We expect it to help everyone build lasting safety awareness by using a range of new technologies.”
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