■ The industry's first dedicated safety education center within a construction site opens, equipped with fire, confined-space, emergency rescue, and virtual safety experience programs.

■ Plans to expand operation of an open safety training platform that brings together site members and the local community

the opening ceremony for the Safety Experience Education Center at the Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4 sites

Hyundai E&C has established a dedicated hands-on training facility for industrial accident prevention at the Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4 construction site, where it is participating together with Doosan Enerbility and POSCO E&C, and has begun operating site-focused safety training.

Hyundai E&C held an opening ceremony for the Safety Experience Education Center on Thursday, May 14, within the construction site of Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4 in Uljin-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The event was attended by key officials, including Lim Byung-chun, Senior Vice President and Head of Hyundai E&C’s Safety Planning Division; Lee Se-yong, Head of the Hanul Nuclear Power Headquarters; heads of partner companies; and worker representatives.

The Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4 Safety Experience Education Center, the first of its kind to be established at a construction site in Korea, is an independent dedicated space within the workplace, designed to allow workers to experience firsthand hazardous situations and develop response capabilities, focusing on types of accidents that occur frequently during the construction process.

The Center operates five zones, including ▲Fire Safety Zone, ▲Safety Inspection Zone, ▲Confined Space Safety Zone ▲Emergency Rescue Zone, and ▲Virtual Safety Zone. It offers a total of 13 experience programs across these five zones, providing safety training tailored to common on-site accident types such as falls, suffocation, fires, and electric shocks, alongside health education covering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. 

In particular, the Virtual Safety Zone at the Center features ▲4D XR experience facility ▲simultaneous multi-user VR ▲Apple Vision Pro, among other technologies, to realistically recreate construction site accident scenarios through immersive content. It also offers immersive experiences using HMD* (Head-Mounted Display) devices, with a focus on strengthening hazard-recognition capabilities that are difficult to acquire through theoretical training alone

*Head Mounted Displays - next-generation video display devices worn on the head like glasses to view large-screen images

In the Safety Inspection Zone, trainees receive practice-based education on accident cases and inspection methods for major high-risk tasks, including work involving trestle ladders, ladders, and rigging. In the Emergency Rescue Zone, CPR and AED experience training is provided to strengthen on-site response capabilities in the event of an emergency.

A Hyundai E&C official said, “The Safety Experience Education Center is a hands-on safety education space designed to allow workers to directly experience actual hazardous situations and acquire response capabilities. We plan to operate it as an open industrial safety education platform that can be shared not only by site members but also by the local community, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of participatory safety education and continuously strengthening a prevention-oriented safety management system.”

Meanwhile, Hyundai E&C is also expanding safety education through the “Safety Culture Hub”, a mobile hands-on training program. The program links major high-risk work types, including rigging, confined spaces, electricity, and construction equipment, with VR-based content, allowing workers to directly experience actual working environments. By operating the program on a rotating basis at major sites nationwide, Hyundai E&C aims to establish a site-centered, prevention-oriented safety culture.