Safety Flash
Safety performance in the offshore renewable energy industry
Safety performance in the offshore renewable energy industry
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 23/20
- Competence and TrainingEmergency ResponseFatigueLeadership and Culture
- FatigueLeadership and safety cultureSafety-performance measurement
- Inspection and maintenance
- Competence and trainingEmergency responseFatigue managementOperational supervision
- Offshore wind
Summary
An IMCA safety flash relays HSE concerns about stalled or potentially declining safety performance in offshore renewable energy. It highlights statutory equipment inspections, training and supervision for newcomers, performance monitoring, realistic scheduling, tested emergency arrangements, fatigue monitoring, and reporting and investigation to prevent recurrence.
Classifications: Fatigue; worker fatigue; alertness impairment.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Safety-performance measurement.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Fatigue management.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Offshore wind; offshore wind energy.
Summary
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has written to a number of trade bodies representing the offshore renewable energy industry, including IMCA, expressing concern “that in some sectors of the wind energy industry, improvements in health and safety performance has at best stalled if not reversed. In 2020, there have been a number of serious incidents both in the UK and elsewhere which could indicate that any reversal may continue.”
IMCA SF 23/20. Themes: competence and training, emergency response, fatigue, leadership and culture.