Work programme

The aim of this workstream is to share knowledge on non-competitive common issues affecting personnel and public safety from wind turbines and associated equipment, including knowledge known about turbine model specific failure modes and areas of concern.

The safe by design programme brings experts together for the purpose of getting the best practice in health and safety into design. Specific topics, which are identified as high risk by the SafetyOn incident data, input from members and wider industry consultation, are investigated with the objective of making improvements at the design stage that will help to reduce incidents throughout the lifecycle of an onshore wind farm.

This workstream is to engage with SafetyOn Associate members, allowing integration, with their knowledge and experience, in the SafetyOn work programme. This workstream will allow Associate members a voice in SafetyOn operations and guarantee best possible benefits of their membership.

Incident data gathering, and sharing, has become an important asset that guides the offshore wind industry’s health and safety workstreams, helping to develop industry wide standards and guidance. Developing incident data reporting protocols/standards for SafetyOn from its early beginnings will smooth the process of analysing industry wide incidents and guide onshore wind H&S workstreams.

The main objective of this workstream is to help SafetyOn members to collect and submit incident data within the onshore wind operations in a unified format, which will produce a cohesive SafetyOn database. These guidelines will feed on the expertise developed by SafetyOn for the coming years as well as consider the diversity of current member companies.

SafetyOn member companies submit incident data and the number of worked hours based on the agreed data reporting template. The template is updated based on experience and information gathered year after year to reflect identified reporting and incident issues.