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Article: Safety in the workplace is a virtual reality; A studio in County Durham could hold the key to making the most dangerous jobs on planet safer. Andrew Mernin enters the Blue Room to find out more. In association with perfect image.(News)
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- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2008
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AS far as dangerous jobs go, working on the railways must be on a par with being a stuntman or a war correspondent.
There are few more hazardous ways to earn a living than working under the threat of being struck at speed by hundreds of tonnes of metal.
But the risky life of the railway worker, alongside numerous other dangerous jobs, could soon be made safer thanks to a revolutionary piece of technology developed here in the North East.
Housed in a studio in the County Durham town of Willington is the Blue Room - a virtual reality-based ...