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Raising safety standards
Productivity
The GWO framework aligns generic safety and technical training standards, which are common to all wind energy companies. Our mission statement is to “create an injury free working environment” and the first step towards achieving this has been to improve the overall quality of safety training for the industry. GWO members and independent service providers working within the GWO framework agree with the statement that GWO has improved the alignment and quality of basic safety training standards. By definition, the BST has improved the alignment and quality of safety training because we now have a standard that delivers a baseline of competence. As an owner/operator of wind turbines, we wouldn’t allow anyone to work on site without the certification. Dr Jill Lees, Director of HSE and Sustainability, E.ON Climate & Renewables »
The majority (60%) of GWO members service multiple turbine brands and deliver service contracts for other owner/operators. The objective for GWO members in creating the first BST standard in 2012 was to remove duplication from the training of wind turbine technicians. Sometimes they were re-training experienced technicians from the ground up to meet their own bespoke safety training re- quirements. In other situations they might be required to deliver a unique training matrix for a specific turbine or customer. Members agree that since they have adopted the GWO framework, reduced duplication has saved them money and allowed technicians to be more readily available for work, in some cases by as much as 5-6 additional productive work days every year.
For every GWO certified technician we employ/contract we can expect them to be available for
30% +4 days on site each year
40% +5 days on site each year
10% +1 day on site each year
10% +3 days on site each year
10% +6 days on site each year
The BST has improved the alignment and quality of basic safety training standards for the global windpower sector
Technicians with a GWO BST certificate can be deployed on site for more working days each year than those without
62% Strongly agree
19% Agree
19% No opinion
44% Strongly agree
31% No opinion
19% Agree
6% Disagree
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