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Onshore and offshore wind H&S remains strong as working hours increase
6/7/2022
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Feature
According to the 2021 annual incident data reports published by SafetyOn and G+, two organisations run in partnership with the Energy Institute (EI), the number of health and safety (H&S) incidents in onshore and offshore wind remains low, despite the rapid growth in the wind energy sector. Beate Hildenbrand, EI Manager of Off/Onshore Wind, reports.
SafetyOn, the health and safety organisation for the onshore wind sector in the UK, and G+, the Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation, recently published their 2021 annual data reports. Despite an increase in the numbers of hours worked in 2021 compared with 2020 in both onshore wind UK and in global offshore wind, we still see a decrease in the number of lost time incidents in both sectors.
These positive figures are testament to the hard work of the two organisations and their members. However, both also state areas of concern in their reports, where industry still needs to improve, and that more work is required to reduce figures further and to continually improve the safety performance for the wind industry.
G+ and SafetyOn
G+ is the Global Health and Safety Organisation for the offshore wind industry. From its early days as G9, G+ has grown into a global organisation that represents owners, operators, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers, investors and grid providers across the offshore wind lifecycle.