GWO ART v 2.1

GWO ADVANCED RESCUE TRAINING STANDARD V02.1

2020-10-01_TS_ART_V02.1

Risk assessments shall be conducted and documented for all training facilities. The Training Provider shall hold the required permits to operate the facilities. The learning process is facilitated by identical or comparable elements comparing the training environment and the course participants’ working environment. Identical or comparable elements enhances the application of what is learned. The practical training facilities and the training environment are therefore expected to incorporate as many identical or comparable elements to a real wind turbine working environment as possible. The objective is that the practical training facility should enable each course participant to individually and/or as part of a team, see, hear and practice the taught subject matter in such a way, that it resembles the working practices in a real wind turbine environment.

The following training facility items will be required for the ART training:

1) Mock-up with enclosed space to simulate the hub, with a height differentiated crawl way. a. Figure 6-41 provides dimensions to the GWO recommended Hub mock-up. b. The training provider can deviate from the recommended hub measurements to facilitate a specific turbine design. 2) A mock-up to simulate access between hub and blade with a maximum access hatch diameter of 0.60 m. a. This diameter can be reduced to 0.50 m to simulate a pitch cylinder partly blocking the hatch 3) Mock-up for the “Rescue up” exercises, to simulate basement/tower rescue. 4) Mock-up to simulate under the gearbox with a max. 60 cm diameter access crawl way into the crawl space, a height between 60 and 30 cm and minimum 200 cm length (Basement/Tower/Nacelle module) 5) Mock-up to simulate the nacelle. a. Figure 6-42 provides dimensions to the GWO recommended Nacelle mock-up. b. The training provider can deviate from the recommended nacelle measures to facilitate a specific turbine design. c. The nacelle mock-up must be filled with sufficient simulated assets, to create a realistic nacelle environment. d. The maximum available contiguous floor space must be less than 3 m 2 , excluding walkways of less than 60 cm width. e. The sides of the nacelle should be designed in such a way as to prevent direct visual contact from within the nacelle to the teams outside of the nacelle

6) Structural and certified anchor points (both modules). It is recommended to connect the various mock-ups to recreate a realistic sequence. For example, connecting the nacelle mock-up with the hub mock-up. Rather than connecting a blade mock-up with the nacelle mock-up. This would provide a more realistic scenario. However, if there are practical reasons to separate the individual mock-ups, then this is allowed. For example, to allow different teams to train at the same time.

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