# Rapid Risk Assessment in Industry: Increasing Awareness of Worker Safety in Industrial Activities
## 2 Methods  
Internationally, there are methodologies and standards aimed at training and testing workers in order to prevent the risks of accidents and occupational diseases, such as the Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) Method, LEAN Safety Training, ISO 45001--Occupational Health and Safety Management. The EL-PRAI methodology, during training, also recommends the use of virtual simulations and augmented reality (AR/VR) for training engineers and leaders in the field of workplace safety. Simulations allow to recreate real working conditions, identify risks, and practice interventions without real exposure to hazards. This stage alternates with training sessions in the field, and in this way, the participants become aware of how dangerous situations can occur in a certain work situation. EL-PRAI focuses on the formation of a proactive attitude, effective communication, and the identification of possible unsafe attitudes during the performance of certain activities. Practically, it aims to train participants to recognize and eliminate situations and factors that can lead to worker injuries. From this point of view, EL-PRAI is also recommended for the training of equipment and construction designers because dangerous scenarios, not only in execution but also in operation and use, must be identified from the conception and design phase. All this demonstrates the significant contribution that this methodology can bring to the security of activities, especially industrial ones. Engineers and team leaders will have to understand the activities that will be carried out as a result of their project or those they will coordinate. This means understanding what type of workers will participate, what equipment they will operate, and in what environment they will work, among other factors. The activities requiring risk assessment must be identified and understood from the beginning. Even in seemingly static situations, such as tank farms or the storage of hazardous substances along with their associated traffic routes, these scenarios are considered part of an activity and must be taken into account. In this stage, different brainstorming methods can be used by the lecturer, including the Socratic method [27], to identify the activities and dangerous scenarios that may occur in the performance of these activities. [PERSON], who was a great philosopher and teacher in ancient Greece, argued that the disciplined practice of questions that involve thinking enables the student to examine ideas logically and determine the validity of those ideas. The technique of Socratic questioning [27] is an effective and sustainable way to find and explore ideas in depth. This method can be used at all levels of education and training and is obviously a very useful tool for teachers and lecturers. The technique can be used in different stages of a learning internship or a project. Through this approach, lecturers foster engineers' independent thinking. Deep thinking is present as engineers discuss, debate, evaluate, and analyze ideas through the filter of their own thinking and that of those around them. The lecturer can try to expose contradictions in the thoughts and ideas of the participants in order to then guide them to solid and sustainable conclusions so that everything is analyzed in all the essential details and each participant understands how, in different scenarios and situations, they can achieve the objectives safely, but also how unwanted events can occur in a given situation. The main questions addressed to the engineers and team leaders within this study are as follows: Q1--What can harm the workers? Q2--How, where, and when can harm to workers occur? Q3--What could be the consequences? Q4--What could go wrong? Q5--What happens if the danger gets out of control? These questions have the role of forming certain skills for searching and recognizing dangers and risks, including those that may appear in certain scenarios that, although they may be predictable, are not easily intuited.