As a service provider to the onshore and offshore wind sectors for over 13 years, our experience and knowledge of working in the field supports us to deliver the highest quality of wind technician training.
Our Global Wind Organisation (GWO) Basic Safety Training (BST) gives delegates a solid understanding of all the safety hazards involved when working on wind turbines. As the industry’s leading wind turbine technician training standard it has increasingly become a requirement by turbine manufacturers and development owners for any technician working on wind farm sites.
We currently only provide our training courses in Houma and were one of the first to offer GWO certified training in the USA. Read more about the individual elements of the BST below.
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For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Why GWO?
GWO is a non-profit body founded by wind turbine manufacturers and owners. It sets out common, international standards for safety training and emergency procedures which is rapidly becoming the preferred standard in the USA and across the world. Operators used to have their own standards and companies had to train personnel in multiple ways but GWO has created a standardised process that the global wind energy sector is quickly adopting. It gives operators and OEM’s confidence that technicians are trained to the highest standard.
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279 Thompson Road, Houma, Louisiana 70363, USA
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Our four GWO wind technician safety training courses are delivered together as a group over four days or we can provide each one individually where required:
First aid
Approximate duration: 1 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to administer safe and effective first aid- Explain risks and hazards relating to first aid in a wind turbine environment
- Legislative requirements and the American Heart Association
- Vital systems of the human body
- Basic life support guidelines
- Skills for detecting abnormal signs and symptoms of injuries of the human body
- First aid in emergency situations
- Immediate first aid actions using Primary Survey ‘C’ A-B-C
- Critical bleeding
- Importance of carrying out first aid in a safe manner
- Use of first aid equipment
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
- Management of an incident in a wind turbine environment
- Emergency rescue teams.
Manual handling
Approximate duration: 0.5 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to carry out safe manual handling and display positive ergonomic behaviors- Proper manual handling techniques
- Identify tasks that would increase exposure to manual handling injuries
- Legislative requirements in relation to manual handling
- Identify risk associated with work tasks that would cause injury to the muscular skeletal system
- Correct manual handling of equipment
- Identify manual handling risks in the wind turbine environment.
Fire awareness
Approximate duration: 0.5 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to prevent and manage fires, and manage the evacuation of personnel- Development and spread of fire
- Causes of fires in wind turbines and the related dangers
- Identification of any sign of a fire in a wind turbine environment
- Contingency plans in a wind turbine environment (including smoke detection and emergency escape procedures)
- Correct actions on discovering a fire (including correct operation and fire extinguishing by using firefighting equipment in a wind turbine environment).
Working at heights
Approximate duration: 1.5 days
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to perform work safely at heights and carry out basic rescues- Legislation and legal responsibilities regarding working at height
- Proper use and inspection of harnesses, lanyards, fall arrest systems, ladders and work positioning equipment
- Hazards and risks associated with working at height specific to a wind turbine generator
- Identification of PPE including identification of global standard markings on harness, hard hat, lanyards, etc.
- Identification of anchor points
- Proper use of evacuation devices
- Use of rescue equipment
- Correct method for rescue situations in wind turbine generators.