Construction Site Safety Simulation: Find 16 Hazards in 3D
This is a construction site safety simulation you can walk around. It looks like a modern game: realistic workers, an excavator, a crawler crane and a pit with its edge unbarricaded, all lit by the sun. Your job is to find the 16 hazards, from the cracked excavator glass to the worker on the roof with no fall protection.
Play Construction Site (Hyper-real)
What makes this version different
The site, the machines and the workers are modelled in detail, with materials scanned from real surfaces and sunlight and shadows that fall the way they do outdoors. It opens on a light version so it starts quickly on a phone; the ? button in the game loads high detail (29 MB). It runs in your browser and takes 2 free minutes on each game, no sign-up.
What you will practise
Excavation, work at height, lifting, confined space and permits to work.
How to play
- On a phone or tablet: your left thumb walks, a drag anywhere else looks around, and a tap identifies.
- On a computer: W, A, S and D walk, dragging the mouse looks around, and a click identifies.
- Keyboard only: the arrow keys walk and turn, Page Up and Page Down look up and down, and Enter identifies whatever is in the centre circle.
Use it with your team
- As a group: put one game on a projector or a TV. One person walks, and the group calls out what they see.
- One each: send the link to everyone’s phone. Each person plays alone, then compare scores and the hazards people missed.
- Talk it through: the end screen lists every missed hazard. Ask the team which of them you have on your own site, and who will fix it.
- On paper: ten of the games come with a PDF and a PowerPoint of the picture with the answers, linked under each game above.
If you run safety for a team, POLLE Safety is free web software for Permit to Work, Toolbox Talks, Safety Committee and Spot the Hazard 3D: free, every module, no card, no caps. Try it.
The 16 hazards
Try the game first. The list below gives the game away.
Show the answers: try the game first
- Damaged glass of the excavator.
- Person very close to the moving equipment
- Person trying to take shortcut
- Exposed electrical cables
- Vision blocked by load being carried.
- No Hand Railings.
- No Barricading – person can fall from height
- Contractor unaware of Work permit procedures
- Working on roof without fall protection
- No Signalman / Spotter to guide the crane load
- Working on roof without fall protection
- Worker distracted using earphones/ smartphone
- No Work Permits issued
- Unregulated confined space work. No Proper equipment used.
- Trash in pathway
- No Barricading – Person can fall from height
More ways to practise
- The lighter 3D version of this game, which opens fastest on a basic phone
- The picture quiz of the same site
- PDF with answers to print for a toolbox talk
- All 15 free hazard identification games in 3D
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