2023-05-02 WLA_V2


1. List of Abbreviations
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2. Terms and Definitions
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3. Change Log
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4. Scope
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5. General requirements for the wind limited access standard
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5.1 Overview
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5.2 Target Group
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5.3 Aims and Objectives
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5.4 Duration of the WLA Standard Modules
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5.5 Validity Period
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5.6 Course Codes
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5.7 Participant Prerequisites
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5.8 Instructor Qualification Prerequisites
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5.9 Practical Training Facilities
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6. Using this Standard to Develop Training
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7. Module 1 – WLA Onshore Limited Access
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7.1 Aims and Objectives for the Onshore Limited Access Module
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7.2 Duration of the Onshore Limited Access Module
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7.3 Onshore Limited Access Module Participant Ratio
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7.4 Equipment for the Onshore Limited Access Module
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7.5 Onshore Limited Access Module Timetable
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7.6 Detailed Description of the Onshore limited Access Module
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Lesson 1 - Introduction to the module
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ELEMENT 1.1 - Safety instructions and emergency procedures
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ELEMENT 1.2 - Facilities
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ELEMENT 1.3 - Introduction
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ELEMENT 1.4 - Scope and main learning objectives
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ELEMENT 1.5 - Ongoing assessments (participant performance assessment form)
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ELEMENT 1.6 - Motivation
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ELEMENT 1.7 - Human factors
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Lesson 2 - Hazards in a wind turbine generator
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ELEMENT 2.1 - Understanding hazards in a wtg
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Lesson 3 - Fire awareness
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ELEMENT 3.1 - Contingency plan in case of fire
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ELEMENT 3.2 - Fire prevention measures
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ELEMENT 3.3 - Firefighting equipment
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Lesson 4 - Medical emergencies
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ELEMENT 4.1 - Notification procedures in case of injury or illness
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ELEMENT 4.2 - CPR – unresponsive, not breathing
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Lesson 5 - Harness
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ELEMENT 5.1 - Fitting A Harness
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Lesson 6 - Self-retracting lifelines
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ELEMENT 6.1 - How to attach correctly to a harness
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Lesson 7 - Measures to prevent injury during training
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ELEMENT 7.1 - Control measures and warm-up
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Lesson 8 - Fall prevention
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ELEMENT 8.1 - Fall prevention over fall arrest
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ELEMENT 8.2 - Correct attachment to the harness
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ELEMENT 8.3 - Correct attachment to anchor points
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Lesson 9 - Vertical fall arrest systems
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ELEMENT 9.1 - Correct attachment to harness
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ELEMENT 9.2 - Correct attachment and detachment of arrest gliders and sliders
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ELEMENT 9.3 - Fall arrest lanyards
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Lesson 10 - Safe and correct evacuation
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ELEMENT 10.1 - Safe and correct evacuation
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Lesson 11 - Training review and feedback
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ELEMENT 11.1 - Feedback session
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8. Module 2 – WLA Offshore limited access
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8.1 Aims and Objectives of the Offshore Limited Access Module
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8.2 Participants Prerequisites
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8.3 Duration of the Offshore Limited Access Module
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8.4 Instructor to Participant Ratio
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8.5 Equipment for Offshore Limited Access Module
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8.6 Offshore Limited Access Module Timetable
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8.7 Detailed Description of Offshore Limited Access Module
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Lesson 1 - Measures to prevent inury during training
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ELEMENT 1.1 - Control measures and warm-up
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Lesson 2 - Practical Sea Survival
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ELEMENT 2.1 - Correct donning and use of LSA and PPE
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ELEMENT 2.2 - Risks related to evacuation into water
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ELEMENT 2.3 - Man overboard procedures (MOB)
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ELEMENT 2.4 - Controlled entry into the water from Transition piece ladder
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ELEMENT 2.5 - Individual and collective swimming techniques
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ELEMENT 2.6 - Correct usage of a life raft
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ELEMENT 2.7 - Emergency descent to water by constant rate descender
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Lesson 3 - Safe travel and transfer
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ELEMENT 3.1 - Hazards related to the different types of transfers (theory)
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ELEMENT 3.2 - Safe transfers from vessel to wtg (theory)
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ELEMENT 3.3 - Safe transfer from vessel to vessel and dock to vessel (theory)
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Lesson 4 - Transfer practical
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ELEMENT 4.1 - Procedures for transfer between crew transfer vessel and wind turbine generator transition piece
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ELEMENT 4.2 - Safe transfer between crew transfer vessel and wind turbine generator transition piece
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Lesson 5 - Training review and feedback
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ELEMENT 5.1 - Feedback session
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Annex 1 - Equipment list
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Annex 2 - Guidline for warm-up exercises
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Annex 3 - Version History
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