Safety training
GWO Basic Safety Training / V19 02052025
Lesson 2 is updated according to a training needs analysis done by the GWO review working group of what a wind turbine technician needs to be able to do as a basic first aider. Therefore, lesson 2 is aimed at enabling the participants to recognise signs and symptoms of life threating situations and save lives and prevent injury to the casualty by being able to use Primary Survey to provide the correct and effective lifesaving first aid in case of an emergency situation in the wind industry. Lesson 3 is updated according to a review of general injury and illness statistics from the GWO members, which led to a focus on how to do a head-to-toe examination and the listed relevant incidents in lesson 3:
4) Burns
5) Chemical contacts to the eye
6) Medical emergency situations: Heart attack & Stroke
7) Hypothermia
8) Fractures
Lesson 4 is updated with a new split between mandatory and additional scenarios, which can be combined at will during the scenario-based training as long as all the mandatory scenarios are covered. The mandatory scenarios are:
1) One electrical incident
2) One incident with either a stroke (circulatory, respiratory, central nervous system) or a heart attack
3) two scenarios must include a “head-to-toe” examination of the casualty
4) CPR using an AED
All the above updates are based on a training need analysis of what a wind turbine technician needs to be able to do as a first aider. This analysis included a review of general injury and illness statistics from the GWO members among others origin from ON and OFF erection, service, lifting and transfer operations. In addition, the updates are also a consequence of the project scope given by the GWO Training Committee to increase the competitiveness of BST and BSTR First Aid modules e.g. by reducing the contact time, where working group has focused on combing instructional valid principles such as reducing the amount of (presented) information with a thorough analysis of the training needs to achieve the best possible outcome. Learning objective in lesson 1 & 2 alters to singular with possible misalignment with gender neutral (plural) pronouns Module 2, Manual Handling reviewed, including reviewed annexes for Warm-up and Manual Handling Risk Assessment
Substantial Changes to the Manual Handling Module:
The module is decreased from 7 lessons to 5.
Global Wind Organisation ©2025/ www.globalwindsafety.org
291 / 312
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs