IOSH Managing Safely for Wind Power

Session title

Time commitment required. Attendance is mandatory.

Introduction to the learning environment and learning process

28th June 2021, 09:00 – 09:40

Module 1 – Introducing Managing Safely

2nd July 2021, 09:00 –11:00

Module 2 – Understanding Your Responsibilities

5th July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

7th July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

Module 3 – Understanding Hazards

9th July 2021, 09:00 –12:00

14th July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

Module 4 – Assessing and Controlling Risks

16th July 2021, 09:00 –12:00

19th July 2021, 09:00 – 12:00

Module 5 – Investigating Incidents

21st July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

Module 6 – Management Systems and Techniques

23rd July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

26th July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

Module 7 – Measuring Performance

28th July 2021, 09:00 – 11:00

Theory and Practical Assessment

30th July 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.