GWO Basic Safety Training

Course Description

• First Aid – To administer safe and effective First Aid in the wind turbine industry/ WTG environment in order to save lives and prevent further injury, until the casualty can be handed over to the next level of care.
• Fire Awareness – Identify possible fire hazards within the wind industry. To prevent fires, conduct initial and appropriate judgement when evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel to ensure all are safely evacuated and accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire.  If it is judged to be safe, to efficiently extinguish an initial fire by using basic handheld firefighting equipment.
• Working at Height – Use of basic PPE and perform safe work whilst at height with a comprehensive knowledge of basic rescue from height in a remote wind turbine environment.
• Sea Survival – To act safely and take the correct preventive actions in all aspects of offshore operations from shore to installation vessel or WTG and vice versa, during normal operation and in an emergency in an offshore wind energy environment.
• Manual Handling – Theoretical and practice training to reduce the risk of injury in a wind turbine/environment.  Encourage participants to perform their tasks and activities in the safest possible manner.