IOSH Managing Safely for Wind Power delivered by Armsa Academy

Session title

Time commitment required. Attendance is mandatory.

Introduction to the learning environment and learning process

14th April 2021 – 09:00–09:40

Module 1 – Introducing Managing Safely

19th April 2021 – 09:00–11.00

Module 2 – Understanding Your Responsibilities

21st  April 2021 - 09:00 -11.00

23rd April  2021 - 09.00-11.00

Module 3 – Understanding Hazards

26th April 2021  – 09:00–12.00

29th April 2021 –  09:00–11.00

Module 4 – Assessing and Controlling Risks

03rd May 2021 -  09:00–12:00

05th May 2021 -  09:00–11:00

Module 5 – Investigating Incidents

07th May 2021 – 09:00–11.00

Module 6 – Management Systems and Techniques

10th May 2021 – 09:00–11:00

12th May 2021 –09.00–11:00

Module 7 – Measuring Performance

14th May 2021– 09:00–11.00

Theory and Practical Assessment

17th May 2021– 09:00–11:30

Planners and Developers

• Appreciate how planning decisions and consent limitations could affect the project and asset performance from a safety standpoint.
• Hazard mapping techniques and the prediction of project performance.
• Understanding your legal responsibilities.
• Improved skills for analysis of project critical risk.
• Understanding Construction Safety Regulations and how this affects projects such as the installation of meteorological masts.
• Appreciation of hazards emanating from site surveys and environmental consultants activities.
• Appreciation of design freeze processes, site layout and project logistics and their importance in the planning phase.

Construction Professionals

• Understanding Construction Safety Regulations and its unique interpretation for the renewables sector both onshore and offshore.
• Strategic work planning, wind turbine safety rules, contractor selection, work management and control for onshore and offshore projects.
• Introduction to the science of risk based monitoring.
• Effective understanding and communication of risk critical information.
• Operational alignment and interpretation of work instructions, scope of work, method statements, risk assessments and using these to mitigate risk in both onshore and offshore environments.
• Understanding the critical effect of task planning and decision making on wind turbine construction projects.

Operations and Maintenance Professionals

• Improved decision making to manage interfaces e.g. NG, DNOs and other operators arising from multi owner sites, WTSR and HV safety rules.
• Understanding your responsibilities for contractor control.
• Improved techniques to manage the safety critical aspects of service and warranty projects.
• Ability to recognise workplace hazards and take measures to prevent harm to yourself, the environment and the assets.
• Ability to understand and to carry out operationally focused risk assessments and why risk assessment is important.
• Map the costs and project consequences from SH&E critical events.
• Improved understanding of competencies for operators and contractors.
• Hazard modelling techniques for onshore and offshore operations.

Technicians, Maintenance Supervisors or Controllers

·       Setting people to work on and offshore.

·       Techniques for dealing with emergencies and emergency response plans.

·       Understanding common hazards arising from marine vessel operations, structural, mechanical and aerodynamic sources.

·       Plan for successful management of change.

·       Manage ageing plant and plan for effective and efficient modification projects.

·       Map hazard effects along a project timeline.

·       Assess contractor performance from RAMS documents.

·       Management of change processes and work management systems.

• Map the costs and project consequences from SH&E critical events.

Project and Asset Managers

SHE Management

Process and Risk Engineers

Supply Chain Management

Human Resource Managers

·       Leadership, zero harm and plant centred safety management.

·       Provides operationally focused view of safety management covering all aspects of operational activities including typical onshore and offshore hazards, their identification and management.

·       Assists with mapping the project wide HS&E effects from local and functional decision making.

·       Improves understanding of the causal analysis of events across departmental boundaries.

·       Assists with assessing contractor performance from RAMS documents

·       Improves understanding of competency requirements for WTG personnel, staff recruitment and management.

• Provides tools and techniques for incident investigation and performance management.

Contractors

·       Provides operation & maintenance contractors and original equipment manufacturers with knowledge on operational hazards that are typical for onshore and offshore wind turbine projects.

·       Understand the importance of work management and how to identify essential data to plan and execute tasks effectively and safely.

·       A clearer understanding of client risk assessment and method statement requirements.

·       Equips with wider knowledge on SH&E issues.

• Helps to identify relevant cost issues from SH&E critical events.