Successful collaboration between Falck-Nutec and E-Semble

Since the start of this year, Falck Nutec has been offering virtual training courses using XVR. The collaboration between Falck and E-Semble has proved internationally successful and meets the needs of industrial fire services.

The virtual training courses are provided at both the Falck Nutec training centre and on location. The customer opts for either

team or individual training and chooses the training scenarios. The Falck training staff prepare the required scenarios in XVR, and draw up a timetable for the exercise. By adjusting scenarios to customer-specific wishes, the instructors can easily respond to situations the course participants come up against in their own environment.

The company fire brigade at

Industrial Park Vlissingen (IPV) in Flushing was one of the groups to receive training this year, using XVR. The purpose of the training programme was to prepare the operational manager for his task during a repressive call-out. To achieve this, IPV opted to train the participants in the morning in a virtual environment, followed up by matching exercises in practice, at the training location. Before the virtual environment became available, these training courses often consisted of a morning session of basic training followed by practical deployment training later in the day. The response from the course participants to the new form of training was 100% positive.

Mr J.J. van den Boom, Commander of the Industrial Park Vlissingen fire brigade commented, “I certainly recognise the added value of this approach. The whole group is trained simultaneously, everyone becomes fully involved in the scenario and everyone can contribute ideas. Looking to the future I would like to see possibilities for virtual training for the entire emergency services organisation, in a simple manner. Everyone could then focus on their own specialist field, but all within a combined scenario.”