Dow Chemicals Safety Induction Kiosk
Background. At Dow Chemicals Australia, Altona plant, all site visitors are required to go through a safety induction process prior to entering the site. This was basically a viewing of a 10 minute safety video on an old VHS player. Needless to say, visitors would often skip through the video at worse, or at best would not retain or understand much of the information conveyed in the video.
Dow was looking for a newer way to deliver the induction with high visibility and effective communications whilst ensuring a much higher level of information retention. After all, safety of the visitor and the site were of paramount importance to Dow.
Of secondary importance was the potential insurance issues of allowing site visitors to enter without some level of standardised safety understanding. Dow needed a solution that was: