How standardisation is creating a safer and more productive workforce

Health & safety

When: Thursday, 27 September 2018, 10:45 - 12:00
Where: Room: Kopenhagen 4

Session description

WindEurope’s Local Impact, Global Leadership campaign has demonstrated the complexity and interconnectedness of our supply chain. As the cost of energy continues to reduce, owner operators, OEMs and other primary contractors are looking towards standards that can deliver a best practice safety and technical training to deliver quality and efficiency. These sessions will explain how standards are influencing health and safety in our industry, from the key opportunity areas for standardisation, to research demonstrating the values that OEMs and Operators feel they achieve by working with standardised training.

Learning objectives

Building a common culture, regardless of national boundary;
Describe work done between regulator and G+ trade association to develop H&S standards in offshore wind;
Using a risk based approach to identify where standardisation would be of most benefit;
Standardization as a means of removing variability of requirements for an ISP working with a variety of windfarm OEMs / Owners.