You were on the front desk.
Psychosocial hazards such as bullying and harassment must now be managed like any other safety risk. Kiin trains people in the moments where those hazards build up, and shows you what they do differently.
Dan, a trainer who rents space at the gym, made a comment about Mia’s top. You were standing next to her.
Now the same thirty seconds from where Mia was standing.
Bullying and harassment are now safety hazards.
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Australia requires it
Most states and territories now require employers to manage psychosocial risks.
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ISO 45003 sets the standard
Auditors and clients compare management systems against it.
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The UK expects a risk assessment
UK employers must assess the risk of work-related stress.
Phone for everyone. VR for the few.
Everyone plays short cases on their phone. About one person in ten also goes into VR, inside the other person’s body. You choose who.
Both are measured, and the results come to you as one report by team.
The same method, tested in a controlled study.
Our largest study was about harassment and used the same method: a trained group compared with a control group two weeks later.
Three levels of measurement
- Self-reportedWhat people say afterwards.
- Observed in VRWhat they do in the scenario, such as where they look.
- Observed at workChange in your own HR data, usually from six months.
The figures above are from the first two levels.
How the study worked
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They were the bystander, then the victim
Participants lived a harassment scenario as the bystander, then went back into the same moment inside the victim’s body and watched their own earlier behaviour from her point of view.
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Two weeks passed
Nothing was measured on the day. Participants returned a fortnight later to a fresh simulation and had the chance to intervene as a bystander.
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Against a control group
A second group ran the same test having never had the victim perspective, alongside an untrained group. The difference between them is the effect.
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Behaviour was measured
Where people looked and for how long, hand and body movement, and machine-scored analysis of what they said, analysed with classical and Bayesian statistics.
A global energy services company · three sites, Mexico · Nov–Dec 2023209 VR sessions · 250+ participants · 150 full data sets · 12 business days · 3 sites
Show inspectors what changed
A report by team shows whether people speak up when a colleague is targeted and whether it is raised afterwards, before and after the training. You can show what people do differently, as well as who completed it.
Shown by team and by situation. No individual is identified.
Kiin was founded by Mel Slater, Mavi Sanchez-Vives and Bernhard Spanlang. Their peer-reviewed research showed that being in a virtual body changes how people behave afterwards.
“An excellent way to simulate situations we sometimes find hard to deal with. It is important to keep doing this, above all on sensitive subjects, to train people in how to handle them.”
See what your teams would do.
Thirty minutes with us. Bring your hazard register and we will show you where Kiin fits.