New employees are 4 times more likely to be injured
The wind industry employs 1.2 million employees to date and 3.3 million new jobs are expected to be created in the next 5 years, almost tripling.?
While some do have wind experience, the majority of the field professionals have no previous experience in the wind energy industry, and they are 4 times more likely to be injured while working at a wind turbine or at a wind farm site.
As the workforce grows, we must develop and solidify our Safety standards and culture to benefit all new employees, and the industry needs to double down on these efforts to make this happen.
I keep asking myself, how can we challenge ourselves to make it easier for our people to do the right thing and take a step back when something seems wrong?
There are solutions; And I believe they start by building knowledge, and capacity.
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We can’t let a new employee go operate on the field on his/her first day. There are programs and trainings we can put in place to train new employees before sending them on the front line.
For example, at GE, we have four Learning Centers around the globe that train employees through a 40-hour program. Once on the field, new employees have a visual way to be identified so they can be extra-prepared before performing any task. And, as they start to operate, employees will be followed by a coach and mentor for 6 months. The intention is to ensure that they receive continuous on-site orientation prior to conducting risky activities and that they are mentored by more experienced team members.
We have multiple contracted partners in the wind industry that are coming to our sites. We should consider developing standards for crane operators, labor partners, special servcies, and logistics providers so that as an industry we can continue to drive more effective safety practices EFS.
Let’s remind ourselves that we are doing this so that everyone can go home safe and unharmed to our families, every day. ZERO harm is the only number we can afford to be successful as an industry.
Stay safe and keep looking out for each other.
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2 年In the energy industry, We'll keep it safe if teams look out for each other.
Turnaround & Growth Leader
2 年In 2009 as CEO Vestas India I went through this drill myself.I climbed the 100m+ stairway to the top of the Nacelle & checked the safety & operational effectiveness procedures on each landings..the chain hookups to our belts are very safe & convenient while servicing.The Vestas safety manuals are well written & the services guys were well trained to follow it 100%.I recollect couple of hand burning instances due to carelessness & those service guys were fired by me. Anne I believe you are referring to Acrophobia..well once the service guys do it a few times they are all set. Yes its a real good climb inside the Tower but putting a sort of capsule/elevator will change the structure design,make it heavier &add costs. Well 12yrs have gone by hope some improvement may have been done. By the way I was 58yrs old at that time??
Head - Health & Safety
2 年Thanks, very important topic… This hypothesis on higher injury projections for new workforce is true in most cases. The challenge in this is that how long a guy holds “New employee” tag? 40hrs / 21days / 3 months / 6months or 1 or 2years. Does the little training that is impacted to them is going to make them competent? Like Quality, can EHS have evaluation criteria (though widely used) for skill qualifications? This needs to be answered by ourselves based on circumstances. Actually this is long journey to tranform one from fully dependent workforce (new) to independent workforce (fully who acquaint to work and work environment). Thanks
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