COURSE CONTENT
- First Aid
- Perform appropriate call for help in case of a first aid incident in the wind industry.
- Act independently to ensure personal safety during the management of a first aid incident to minimise the risk of exposure to blood-borne and other potential pathogens.
- Perform an assessment of a person using primary survey (CABC approach) and a secondary head-to-toe examination.
- Perform appropriate first aid treatment on catastrophic external bleeding using relevant equipment.
- Perform placement of an unresponsive person into the recovery position.
- Perform CPR (in accordance with national guidelines).
- Perform resuscitation using an AED.
- Take responsibility for managing first aid incidents with the correct approach and assessments made in a WTG environment.
- Act independently in correctly assessing, assisting, and providing the necessary first aid in an incident in a WTG environment.
- Take responsibility for the correct use of first aid equipment.
- Manual Handling
- Describe the TILE principle and how to apply them in manual handling situations.
- Take initiative to warm up prior to daily physical work tasks.
- Take initiative to mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries by applying TILE principle, safe work procedures and using relevant aids when working over shoulder heights.
- Take initiative to mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries by applying TILE principle, safe work procedures and aids when pushing and pulling loads.
- Take initiative to mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries by applying TILE principle, safe work procedures and aids when lifting and carrying loads.
- Take initiative to mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries by applying TILE principle, safe work procedures and aids when working while kneeling.
- Take responsibility for actions to reduce exposure to vibrating handheld tools, such as job rotation and applying appropriate PPE.
- Take initiative to mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries by applying TILE principle, safe work procedures and aids when working in awkward postures.
- Take responsibility for safe practices of manual handling.
- Fire Awareness
- Perform a pre-use inspection of firefighting equipment.
- Solve how to act in a given situation based on an assessment of the fire and select the right fire extinguisher according to the fire classes.
- Apply fire extinguishers efficiently and safely.
- Solve how to act according to the continency plans in a WTG.
- Solve how to act in a given situation based on an assessment of the fire and select the right extinguishing media according to the fire classes.
- Apply fire blanket efficiently and safely.
- Act independently to escape from a smoke-filled environment in the event of an unmanageable fire.
- Take responsibility for the evacuation of personnel and ensure all are safely accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire.
- Working at Height
- Perform pre-use inspection of the PFPE and equip themselves with appropriate PFPE.
- Take responsibility for buddy-checks as a precaution against improper use of PFPE and risk of dropped objects.
- Take responsibility for securing tools, equipment, accessories, minor components, items, and parts by adequately tethering to prevent dropped objects.
- Perform the appropriate use of different types of guided type fall arresters (e.g. rail, cable) and SRL while showing awareness of fall factors.
- Act independently in using the principle of selecting anchor points which reduce the fall factor to as low as possible.
- Take responsibility for the safe and correct use of work positioning lanyards.
- Take responsibility for the safe and correct use of fall arrest lanyards while showing awareness of fall factors.
- Perform the correct use of the rescue device in passive and active mode.
- Perform double evacuation with device in active mode.
- Perform rescue of an injured person from a ladder with the device in passive mode.
- Perform rescue of an injured person from a ladder with the device in active mode.
- Act independently in approaching rescue situations in WTGs and in using rescue equipment efficiently.
- Take responsibility for safely and correctly using rescue devices.
- Sea Survival
- Perform pre-use inspection of LSA, PPE, and PFPE.
- Take responsibility for correct donning and using LSA, PPE and PFPE correctly.
- Take responsibility to perform an effective buddy check on colleague’s LSA and PPE.
- Describe safe behavior during approach, crossing, and retreat phases of W2W transfers.
- Take responsibility for transfer between CTV and WTG TP following the relevant procedures.
- Take responsibility for performing buddy checks of tethering systems on colleagues prior to transfer.
- Act independently and take responsibility to enter the water from a WTG transition piece in a controlled manner.
- Perform individual swimming techniques with LSA, PPE, and PFPE donned.
- Take responsibility for supporting other learners while applying collective swimming techniques.
- Solve how to minimize the risk of hypothermia while in the water.
- Perform how to safe water entry from a height no greater than 1,5m/5ft.
- Take responsibility for ensuring the correct use of a life raft in an emergency at sea.
- Describe the equipment in a life raft.
- Safely perform righting a life raft and demonstrate immediate and further actions.
- Perform a safe double descent into the water and detach from the evacuation system while in the water.
- Take responsibility for their own and fellow employees’ safety in emergency situations in an offshore work environment.
- Take responsibility to evacuate from a Crew Transfer Vessel.
- Take responsibility to evacuate from WTG Transition Piece.