Safety Flash
UK HSE: Service lifts on offshore and onshore wind turbines
UK HSE: Service lifts on offshore and onshore wind turbines
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/24
- Hand and Finger InjuriesLine of FireMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsHand and finger injuriesRegulation and legislation
- Operator displays and control interfaces
- Machine guarding
- Offshore windOnshore wind
Summary
This flash summarises an HSE bulletin following a technician’s serious hand injury involving a wind turbine service lift. It examines inadequate landing-gate guarding and external control positioning, and relays recommendations for immediate design checks, remedial guarding or control relocation, and withdrawal or suitable short-term measures pending completion.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Operator displays and control interfaces.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Classifications: Offshore wind; offshore wind energy.
Classifications: Onshore wind; onshore wind energy.
Summary
The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has published a safety bulletin on service lifts on offshore wind turbines.
IMCA SF 13/24. Themes: hand and finger injuries, line of fire, machinery and equipment.