heightec’s GWO Basic Safety Training (BST) package is aimed at personnel who will be working in the offshore wind industry.
On completion participants will possess an awareness of the hazards encountered when working within the wind industry and how to control and mitigate these hazards. Participants will also be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to appropriately respond in the event of an emergency and to increase their safety through proper use of personal protective equipment, emergency equipment and procedures.
The course combines the following modules, delivered over 5 consecutive days in accordance with GWO standards:
- Working at Heights (WAH) – use basic personal protective equipment, perform safe work at heights and safe, comprehensive basic rescue from heights
- Manual Handling(MH) – perform tasks and activities in the safest possibly way
- Fire Awareness (FAW) – prevent fires, make appropriate judgements when evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel
- First Aid (FA) – administer safe and effective First Aid in the wind turbine industry/WTG environment
- Sea Survival (SS) – to act safely and responsibly, taking correct preventive actions in all aspects of offshore operations from shore to installation vessel/WTG and vice versa both in normal operations and in an offshore wind environment
GWO Basic Safety Training (BST) offshore package enables participants to support and care for themselves and others working in the industry by possessing the knowledge and skills of first aid, working at heights, manual handling, fire awareness and sea survival and in case of an emergency, to be able to evacuate, rescue and provide appropriate first aid to casualties.
The BST Working at Heights with Manual Handling training course includes:
- Introduction
- Legislation and behavioural safety
- Harness
- Fall prevention
- Vertical fall arrest systems
- Fall arrest lanyards
- Dropped objects
- Self-retracting lifelines
- Control measures to prevent injury during training
- Practical exercises
- Spinal anatomy and posture
- Planning manual handling
- Manual handling techniques
- Emergency procedure
- Workshop: risks and hazards and suspension trauma
- PPE review
- Rescue devices and rigging set up
- Measures to prevent injury during training
- Rescue exercises
The BST Fire Awareness training course includes:
- Introduction
- Legislation
- Fire combustion and fire spread
- Fire extinction
- Fire prevention
- Firefighting equipment in a WTG
- Practice and scenario-based training
- Evaluation
The BST First Aid training course includes:
- Introduction
- Legislation/Risks/Hazards
- Anatomy
- Management of an incident
- Lifesaving first aid using primary survey “C”-A-B-C
- Secondary survey
- Scenario-based training
- Evaluation
The BST Sea Survival training course includes:
- Safety Culture & Legal including legal responsibilities
- Cold water immersion
- Life saving appliances and PPE
- SAR and GMDSS
- Practical Sea Survival
- Safe travel and transfer (theory)
- Installations, vessels and WTG’s
- Transfer Practical
Training certificates are issued online via GWO’s WINDA system.
Revalidation: Please see GWO Basic Safety Training Package – Refresher (BSTR)
ESSENTIAL – PLEASE NOTE:
- Safety footwear is required for all practical sessions.
- GWO course participants must have a WINDA ID before they book. If you do not have a WINDA ID please register here before booking your course.
- GWO Sea Survival participants must be able to swim at least 50m. Must have valid GWO Working at Height certificate.
- GWO Sea Survival participants should bring warm clothing of man-made fibres (not cotton), a towel and a spare change of clothes. heightec will provide a survival suit.
15% discount – on completion of your training course you will receive voucher code giving you 15% off your next heightec equipment order online.
