For the last 2.5 years LOCI has been designing innovations for safety training in partnership with Seaspan, one of Canada’s largest ship-building and marine transport companies, and industry leaders when it comes to workplace safety. 

 

With the sole purpose of making people safer by turning instructions into instinct, we designed a new way to share training and instructions that people actually remember. LOCI combines modern discoveries in neuroscience about how the brain navigates and remembers with ancient memory-building techniques and gamification. The result is a learning experience that’s up to eight times more memorable than verbal or written instruction. 

 

Earlier this year in March, we were preparing to roll out the new training system at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyard. And then the global pandemic hit. 

 

Suddenly, managing fire safety for large numbers of people in the same space wasn’t high on anyone’s priority list. Our roadmap went out the window and the team and I decided to find a way to use LOCI to help people stay safe during this new worldwide emergency. 

 

We researched and brainstormed, and it hit us: a virus is just like an invisible fire. The coronavirus spreads quickly and, without the right training, people tend to panic and make mistakes.

 

Through the development of our training software we know what it takes to make safety memorable. Information does not equal learning, and simply reading or being told something does very little to change behaviour.