RenewableUK has released an updated edition of its health and safety guidelines for the offshore wind and marine energy industries.
At around 270 A4 pages, the latest Offshore Wind and Marine Energy Health and Safety Guidelines is a fairly weighty document, but it makes highly interesting reading for those involved in ensuring safety in the industry. And that, these days, means almost everyone in some way or other.
The guidelines address principal offshore activities and hazards during the life cycle of a development, with the aim of supporting safety for the sector as a whole. It’s a big subject, with almost 50 different topics, but it’s not an attempt to reinvent health and safety practices from the ground up. Instead, the document is designed to act as an online “signpost”, pointing the reader to best practices that already exist across a multitude of sources.
The report is authored by UK-based SgurrEnergy, an internationally active consulting house that is particularly well acquainted with maritime and energy issues. SgurrEnergy’s consultants base their findings on extensive consultation and a programme of workshops with representatives of leading developers, manufacturers and contractors.
While the guidelines are primarily designed to support developers and clients in relation to offshore renewable energy projects designed, constructed, operated and maintained in the UK, they can also form a useful reference source for manufacturers, contractors and professional advisers in other parts of the world.
Issue 2, 2014 of the guidelines can be downloaded here.
