Fire Awareness - GWO Course

Objectives:Participant will  learn the basics in prober safe planning and preparation with a fire emergency response before beginning work in a Wind Turbine. This including appropriate judgement considering thread of fire and appropriate judgement when evaluating an ongoing fire – How to manage personnel evacuation in a safe manner with safe judging of the fire and establishing efficiently extinguish by hand held firefighting equipment, when such possibility is judged to be safe, whenever working in the Wind Industry/-environment.  

Target group: All technicians in position to access on-or offshore Wind Turbines.

Content:  

• Introduction
• Training facility
• Legislation
• Medical self-assessment
• Fire combustion and -spreading
• Fire extinction
• Fire prevention
• Fire fighting with handheld extinguishers (practises)
• Exercises in evacuation from smoke filled area and WTG
• Summing up and evaluation

Duration:                             4 hours

Course language:               English (request if course is available in local language)

Number of participants:     min.4 and max.8

Prerequisites for participation:

Possession of a valid certificate in “Working at Heights - GWO Basic Safety Training” is required. 

Participants must be physically able to work in the selected work environment.

Participants shall supply safety footwear and working clothes.

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