The G9 Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association (G9) held a Safer by Design workshop last month in Oslo, Norway, on the subject of emergency escape from a turbine nacelle in the event of a fire.
The workshop was attended by a range of industry representatives with engineering and HSE backgrounds with presentations given from a number of experts within the industry on fire control and mitigation, equipment and PPE to facilitate escape from the nacelle, and escape training and competency requirements.
In addition to the presentations, there were separate breakout sessions where groups undertook a short design led review based before reporting back on key discussion points and conclusions in a final plenary session.
The outputs of these breakout sessions will be formalised in a report and will be published by the Energy Institute (EI), who are working in partnership with the G9 in order to meet their objective of improving health and safety performance in the offshore wind industry.
The G9 Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association (G9) brings together nine of the world’s largest renewable energy developers to form a group that places health and safety at the forefront of all offshore wind activity and developments. The G9 aims to create and deliver world class safety performance across all of its activities in the offshore wind industry.
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