Safety training
Control of Hazardous Energies Standard / V5 DRAFT REVIEW - Oct 2025
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Global Wind Organisation is a non-profit body founded by the wind turbine manufacturers and owners. Our members strive for an injury free work environment in the wind turbine industry, setting common international standards for safety training and emergency procedures. Training is verified through GWO’s WINDA database.
Hazardous energies are found in various forms within the wind turbine and the environment of a wind farm, posing a high risk of injury to all workers within the wind industry.
The GWO Control of Hazardous Energies (CoHE) training standard has been developed in response to the demand for recognisable CoHE training for the wind industry and has been prepared in co-operation between the members of GWO based on Safe Systems of Work (SSOW), risk assessments, job roles and tasks relevant to CoHE in the wind industry, as well as factual incident and accident statistics from G+ and the wind industry. This training is recommended by the members of GWO to support company, turbine, regional and equipment specific training and it must be supplemented by further company SSOW and site- specific training.
Completion of GWO CoHE training provides participants with foundational knowledge, skills and ability in the safe control of hazardous energies.
The standard comprises of two modules:
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CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
The GWO CoHE training standard adopts a generic approach to training for work with highly varied regional, company and site-specific regulations, practices and procedures, with significant differences in equipment and ways of working. The learning objectives adopt a generic approach to support and underpin progressing to employer, site and equipment specific training. GWO CoHE training must be supplemented by company SSOW and site-specific training, as well as equipment-specific training in many cases.
It is always the responsibility of the duty holder to determine if a GWO training is sufficient in relation to the tasks, hazards and risks they expose a GWO trained person to, or if additional training is required.
General feedback on this document can be sent to info@globalwindsafety.org. See globalwindsafety.org on how to raise a complaint about a training provider or report a safety incident occurring during training.
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