Managing safety: a simulation tool
This projects deliverable will be a simulation game. The envisioned single-player game can be either computer-based (possibly to be accessed online) or a smartphone app. The game is intended to put a player into the role of a manager of a factory (e.g. commercial pizza production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7anib2L7uUk ) where they have to make trade-off decisions around safety and productivity. At the start, the game should present the player with a random selection from a list of scenarios with each having varying safety/ productivity implications. Then the game offers the player safety leadership actions/behaviours to choose from. The player's objective in the game would be to be as productive as possible (i.e. meeting a production target for a delivery which can be varied in its size in each scenario thereby varying production pressures), while also running the factory safely. Each action/combination of actions will be connected to changes in safety and performance parameters/ outcomes. The changes in these outcomes are presented to a player on a dashboard and they can at each step adjust/ select actions to balance out safety and productivity. In the worst case outcomes the factory explodes/goes bankrupt (we still have to write out the scenarios).
The simulation game is intended to mirror what research tells us about the ways in which managers influence safety and productivity (i.e. we will use research findings to inform the decision-making trees and probabilities of consequences that will be encountered). We intend to use the game for research purposes, so that we can collect behavioural data from people who play the game (including different scenario set up (i.e. production targets) and analysis of initial choices and choices after the game gives them feedback regarding consequences of their choices). This means the game also needs to be able to record player progress through the game (player input and consequent game outcomes).
Client
Contact: Laura Fruhen
Phone: 0412125950
Email: [email protected]
Preferred contact: Email
Location: Crawley Campus
IP Exploitation Model
The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: Creative Commons (open source) http://creativecommons.org.au/
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 22 June 2020
Modified By: Michael Wise
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