UK: Health & Safety Culture at CWind Delivers Zero LTI

Since 2009 CWind has logged over 600,000 working hours with a zero LTI record (Lost Time Incidents) on project solutions with the offshore wind farm sector. This means 4 years working without any Lost Time Incidents.

CWind ‘s high SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality) standards, reflect the company’s core commitment both to its staff and its clients. With the industry under close scrutiny to drive costs down, especially in the O&M phases, it is crucial that service and solutions providers can provide a proven, safe and consistent service with minimal downtime.

CWind has always maintained a robust SHEQ policy, deeply rooted in the company’s work ethic and supported by a very pro-active Management Team. The company has a policy of hands-on management, including at Director level, to ensure that projects run efficiently and that staff are well supported in all aspects of safe operations. This is reinforced by a comprehensive customised reporting system connected online so that project and safety teams can have up-to-date information and can also themselves distribute project and safety updates rapidly.

In this way CWind’s staff are the backbone of this strong safety culture and this is reflected in the substantial training programme they undertake, including with the NWFTC (National Wind Farm Training Centres). All this means that project solutions can be correctly implemented, with procedures designed from the very outset to ensure SHEQ compliance. This critical understanding is built into the “tool-box talks” with the technicians and daily project working by the management team. The operations managers themselves are all experienced, well skilled, highly motivated and with an excellent understanding (and appreciation of) SHEQ requirements – many utilising their skills and experience from their time in HM forces.

Over the past four years CWind has developed excellent relationships with the key players in the wind industry, working on major offshore wind farm projects delivering services such as generator management, corrosion protection, inspection services, essential installation project works, cable pulling etc as well as vessel charter and complete project solutions. It is an exciting time for CWind, with expansion for its charter fleet and project teams, fundamental to this growth will be its robust health and safety culture embedded at the very heart of its operations.

CWind’s SHEQ Manager, Gary Holland explains: “To maintain its exemplary track record record, CWind will continue to keep looking forwards and concentrate on the task in hand.” 

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Press release, February 21, 2013; Image: CWind