This course aims to support delegates in renewing their GWO basic safety training by reviewing key safety principles and practical techniques used in the wind turbine industry.
Course outline:
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Tuesday AM - Working at Height and Rescue
On successful completion, the session aims to help delegates to:
- Describe relevant legislation for WAH
- Explain equipment selection and inspection
- Describe safe systems of work, permits and emergency procedures
- Undertake self-rescue and evacuation
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Wednesday AM - Manual Handling
On successful completion, the session aims to help delegates to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance of carrying out work duties in a safe and sound manner in accordance with the legislative requirements of their geographic location
- Identify aspects of their job tasks that could increase a workerΓÇÖs risk of developing muscular/skeletal injuries
- Demonstrate understanding of safe practices for manual handling including the correct handling of equipment
- Identify signs and symptoms of injuries related to poor manual handling techniques and have knowledge of reporting methods
- Demonstrate a problem-solving approach to manual handling in a wind turbine environment
- Demonstrate manual handling risk reduction techniques
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Wednesday PM - GWO Fire Awareness On successful completion, the session aims to help delegates to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the development and spread of fire
- Demonstrate knowledge of the causes of fires in wind turbines and the dangers related to this
- Identify any sign of a fire in a wind turbine environment
- Demonstrate knowledge of the contingency plans in a wind turbine environment including smoke detection and emergency escape procedures
- Demonstrate correct actions on discovering a fire including correct operation and fire extinguishing by means of the fire-fighting equipment in a WTG
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Thursday - GWO Sea Survival, Vessel Transit and Transfer
- Refresh of course and assessment procedures
- Organisation for safety
- Review of responsibilities during offshore operations in the offshore wind industry
- Working safely offshore
- Law and enforcement
- Industry overview and facility overview
- Offshore operations and emergencies
- Environment and offshore hazards
- Transit to and from a tower
- Facility emergencies
- Practical tower transfer
- First aid
- Vessel abandonment
- Sea survival theory and practical
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Friday - GWO First Aid
On successful completion, the session aims to help delegates to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance to carry out First Aid in a safe and sound manner in accordance with the legislative requirements of their geographic location and according to ERC and AHA guidelines
- Identify and explain normal function, normal signs, functions and symptoms of serious and minor injuries and illness related to the human body
- Demonstrate understanding and correct order of management in an emergency situation in a WTG environment
- Demonstrate correct use of lifesaving first aid using the primary survey A-B-C
- Demonstrate correct use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED)
- Demonstrate correct use of ordinary First Aid, the secondary survey
- Demonstrate correct use of first aid equipment in a first aid scenario
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