Safety training
GWO Basic Safety Training / V19 02052025
- “Fixed length fall arrest lanyard” has been changed to “fall arrest lanyard including energy absorber”
- “Helmets” have been updated to “industrial safety helmet with a chin strap that is released with a force of no less than 150 N and not more than 250 N”
- “Carabiners” has been changed to “connectors (carabiners)”
- “Evacuation and rescue devices” has been split into two categories: “Rescue devices with lifting capacity” (EN 1496) and “devices for emergency decent” (EN 341)
• Equipment list for Seas Survival has been updated
- Rigid life jackets have been removed
- Evacuation and rescue devices has been replaced with descender devices for rescue (EN 341)
- Fixed length fall arrest lanyards has been changed to fall arrest lanyard including energy absorber
Amendment date
Version
Approved by & date
DECEMBER 2022
16.1
GWO TC
Description of changes
Version V16. 1 Dec2022
Annex 1 Equipment Lists
BST Working at Height. Table A4 -1 Country specific equipment standards
– Working at Height) PP 222/3.
BST Sea Survival. Table A1 -5 Country specific equipment standards
– Sea Survival) PP225
Full Body Harness reference for Europe and UK. The following erroneous reference removed “…or EN 813” (Europe). In UK, “…or BS EN 813”
VersionV16Sep22
Section 5. 7 and 12.2 Participants pre -requisites: New pre -requisites added:
Prerequisites for participating in the Sea Survival module is
a valid GWO Working at Height training
certificate – because:
1) To ensure safe climbing and descending on ladders. WaH gear is not the syllabus for sea survival
–
just tools to conduct exercises
2) To make participants feel safe and comfortable in trusting fall arrests, SRLs and descend/rescue device (e.g. MILAN)
3) To keep a flow in the training activities and not spend time on individual introductions to the gear
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