
On 19 April, students of St Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation named after Chief Marshal of Aviation A. A. Novikov, studying 20.03.01 Technosphere safety, visited the Smart Labour training site at the SPbGASU training base.

The purpose of the visit was to exchange interuniversity experience and improve the professional competencies of future specialists.
Andrey Nikulin, Head of the SPbGASU Department of Technosphere Safety, and Tatiana Goncharuk, Senior Lecturer at the Department, demonstrated interactive learning modules for nine types of construction work to students in a guided tour and educational format.

The event ended with the presenting the guests the computer training program "Smart Labour", built on the principles of virtual reality. The program allows to independently learn the rules of safe work, observing both their correct organization and the consequences of a safety violation. In the future, this program will be developed through the development of VR simulators and augmented reality technologies as part of the innovative educational project of the university "Modern educational technologies to ensure labour safety in the construction industry."
The Smart Labour training site was created as part of the SAFECON international project (Safe, Skilled and Productive Construction Sites”) and is open to the public since 2021.