GWO TRAINING
BST & ART GWO Courses for the Wind Industry
GWO TRAINING COURSES
We offer full suite of GWO Basic Safety Training (BST) – initial entry and refresher, and Advanced Rescue Training (ART) courses, for personnel who will be working in the wind industry or related fields, and will have their duties in a wind turbine environment.
Our training centre is housed within a beautiful Grade A listed church in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing a uniquely interesting venue to train from, with our Sea Survival training run from nearby Port Edgar Marina offering excellent, safe and realistic sea survival training from a magnificent setting in the Firth of Forth.
To book a course please click the ‘book’ button below. If your preferred dates aren’t available, please contact us as we may be able to re-arrange the schedule to accommodate.
Our Training Venue
Our training centre is housed in a magnificent Grade A listed church in Penicuik – Edinburgh, Scotland. State of the art training infrastructure has been designed and built into the lofty heights and interesting internal structures to create a beautiful and uniquely interesting place to train from.
Sea Survival Venue
Our sea survival training is delivered from nearby Port Edgar Marina. With a backdrop of the Forth Bridges, the venue offers a spectacular setting in the Firth of Forth from which to provide excellent, safe, and realistic sea survival training.
GWO Basic Safety Training (BST)
Who is it for? Personnel who will be working in the wind industry or related fields and will have their duties in a wind turbine environment.
The aim of GWO BST? Training in accordance with this Basic Safety Training will enable participants to support and care for themselves and others working in the industry by possessing the knowledge and skills of first aid, working at heights, manual handling, fire awareness, sea survival and in case of an emergency, to be able to evacuate, rescue and provide appropriate first aid to casualties.
Prerequisites: Candidates must be fit and able to complete all aspects of training.
Validity Period: 2 years. Training can be renewed up to two months prior to expiry and maintain the original certification date.
GWO BST comprises of 5 subjects:
Working at Height/Manual Handling Combined (2 days)
The aim of this module is to enable the participants, through theoretical and practical training, to use basic personal protective equipment, work safely at heights and perform comprehensive basic rescue from heights in a wind turbine environment. Furthermore, this module also aims to encourage positive manual handling and ergonomic behavior and enable participants to perform manual handling tasks in a safe manner.
First Aid (1 day)
The aim of this module is to enable participants, through theoretical and practical training, to recognise signs and symptoms of life threating situations and administer safe and effective first aid in the wind turbine industry/WTG environment in order to save lives and prevent further injury, until the casualty can be handed over to the next level of care.
Fire Awareness (4 hours)
The aim of this module is to enable the participants to prevent fires, make appropriate judgements when evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel and ensure all are safely accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire. If the incident is judged to be safe, the participants should be able to efficiently extinguish an initial fire by using basic handheld firefighting equipment.
Sea Survival (For those working offshore)(1 day)
The aims of this BST Sea Survival course are to give, by theoretical and practical training, participants the ability to act safely and responsibly and to take the correct preventive actions in all aspects of offshore operations from shore to installation vessel (or WTG) and vice versa. This is both during normal operations and in an offshore wind energy environment emergency.
GWO BST Training courses we offer
GWO Offshore Basic Safety Training Package (Initial Entry)
This is a bundle of the following courses:
– GWO Sea Survival (1 day)
– GWO First Aid (1 day)
– GWO Fire Awareness (4 hours)
– GWO Working at Heights and Manual Handling Combined (2 days)
GWO Onshore Basic Safety Training Package (Initial Entry)
This is a bundle of the following courses:
– GWO First Aid (1 day)
– GWO Fire Awareness (4 hours)
– GWO Working at Heights and Manual Handling Combined (2 days)
GWO Offshore Basic Safety Training Package (Refresher) (3 days)
This is a bundle of the following courses:
– GWO Sea Survival (1 day)
– GWO First Aid (4 hours)
– GWO Fire Awareness (4 hours)
– GWO Working at Heights and Manual Handling Combined (1 day)
GWO Onshore Basic Safety Training Package (Refresher) (2 days)
This is a bundle of the following courses:
– GWO First Aid (4 hours)
– GWO Fire Awareness (4 hours)
– GWO Working at Heights and Manual Handling Combined (1 day)
GWO Advanced Rescue Training (ART) info
Who is it for? Personnel who will be working in the wind industry or related fields and will have their duties in a wind turbine environment.
Personnel that may need or is selected by their employer to perform advanced rescue or lead an advanced rescue operation, where training according to one or more modules of the GWO advanced rescue training may mitigate the identified risks.
The aim of GWO ART?
Training in accordance with this Advanced Rescue Training Standard will enable participants to perform entry-type injured person rescue operations, in a WTG, using industry standard rescue equipment, rescue methods and techniques, exceeding those of GWO BST, Working at Height.
Prerequisites:
Candidates must be fit and able to complete all aspects of training.
GWO Working at Height, GWO First Aid, GWO Manual Handling
Validity Period: 2 years
Training can be renewed up to two months prior to expiry and maintain the original certification date.
ART Courses we offer
ART Combined Package (3 days)
– MODULE 1 – HUB, SPINER AND INSIDE BLADE RESCUE (HSIBR)
– MODULE 2 – NACELLE, TOWER & BASEMENT MODULE (NTBR)
– MODULE 3 – SINGLE RESCUER: HUB, SPINNER & INSIDE BLADE RESCUE (SR:HSIBR)
– MODULE 4 – SINGLE RESCUER: NACELLE, TOWER & BASEMENT RESCUE (SR:NTBR)
