As a service provider to the onshore and offshore wind sectors for over 13 years, our experience and knowledge of working in the field supports us to deliver the highest quality of wind technician training.
Our Global Wind Organisation (GWO) courses give delegates a solid understanding of all safety hazards while providing turbine manufacturers and development owners assurance that their workforce is trained to a leading industry standard.
TRAINING IN HOUMA, USA
As an Altrad Sparrows company, and part of the Altrad Group, we utilise the Altrad Sparrows training facility in Houma to deliver our GWO courses, where we have designed and built a 25ft tower for the practical elements of our training. We offer four GWO courses in Houma:
- Basic Safety Training
- Advanced Rescue Training
- Crane and Hoist Basic User
- Slinger Signaller
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Altrad Sparrows
279 Thompson Road, Houma, Louisiana 70363, USA
T+1 985 873 7969
Why GWO?
GWO is a non-profit body founded by wind turbine manufacturers and owners. It sets out common, international standards for safety training and emergency procedures which is rapidly becoming the preferred standard in the USA and across the world. Operators used to have their own standards and companies had to train personnel in multiple ways but GWO has created a standardised process that the global wind energy sector is quickly adopting. It gives operators and OEM’s confidence that technicians are trained to the highest standard.
Training courses
Basic Safety Training (BST)
Our four GWO BST courses are delivered together as a group over four days or we can provide each one individually where required.
First Aid
Approximate duration: 1 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to administer safe and effective first aid
- Explain risks and hazards relating to first aid in a wind turbine environment
- Legislative requirements and the American Heart Association
- Vital systems of the human body
- Basic life support guidelines
- Skills for detecting abnormal signs and symptoms of injuries of the human body
- First aid in emergency situations
- Immediate first aid actions using Primary Survey ‘C’ A-B-C
- Critical bleeding
- Importance of carrying out first aid in a safe manner
- Use of first aid equipment
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
- Management of an incident in a wind turbine environment
- Emergency rescue teams.
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Manual Handling
Approximate duration: 0.5 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to carry out safe manual handling and display positive ergonomic behaviors
- Proper manual handling techniques
- Identify tasks that would increase exposure to manual handling injuries
- Legislative requirements in relation to manual handling
- Identify risk associated with work tasks that would cause injury to the muscular skeletal system
- Correct manual handling of equipment
- Identify manual handling risks in the wind turbine environment.
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Fire Awareness
Approximate duration: 0.5 day
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to prevent and manage fires, and manage the evacuation of personnel
- Development and spread of fire
- Causes of fires in wind turbines and the related dangers
- Identification of any sign of a fire in a wind turbine environment
- Contingency plans in a wind turbine environment (including smoke detection and emergency escape procedures)
- Correct actions on discovering a fire (including correct operation and fire extinguishing by using firefighting equipment in a wind turbine environment).
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Working at Heights
Approximate duration: 1.5 days
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to perform work safely at heights and carry out basic rescues
- Legislation and legal responsibilities regarding working at height
- Proper use and inspection of harnesses, lanyards, fall arrest systems, ladders and work positioning equipment
- Hazards and risks associated with working at height specific to a wind turbine generator
- Identification of PPE including identification of global standard markings on harness, hard hat, lanyards, etc.
- Identification of anchor points
- Proper use of evacuation devices
- Use of rescue equipment
- Correct method for rescue situations in wind turbine generators.
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Crane and Hoist Basic User (CHBU)
Approximate duration: 1.5 days
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to safely operate common types of fixed crane and hoist in the wind industry
- Identify types of basic crane and hoist
- Identify how to conduct proper pre-use inspections
- Legislative requirements in relations to lifting and hoisting
- Identify risk associated with lifting and hoisting such as gravity and momentum
- Correct usage of basic crane and hoist
- Identify, inspect and use proper rigging techniques
- Basic lift planning and risk assessment in lifting activities.
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Advanced Rescue Training (ART)
Approximate duration: 3 days
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to safely conduct rescue of personnel
This course focuses on the aspects of a rescue in a wind turbine, including access, patient packaging, and communications for an injured person from the basement, tower, nacelle, hub, and blades. Upon completion of GWO ART, participants will have the knowledge required to access and rescue an injured person from almost any area of a wind turbine.
GWO ART is divided into the following four modules:
- Module 1: Hub, Spinner and Inside Blade Rescue
- Module 2: Nacelle, Tower, and Basement Rescue
- Module 3: Single Rescuer: Hub, Spinner and Inside Blade Rescue
- Module 4: Single Rescuer: Nacelle, Tower, and Basement Rescue
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
Slinger Signaller (SLS)
Approximate duration: 1.5 days
Format: theoretical and practical
Enables delegates to understand and mitigate risks
Upon completion of the GWO SLS training course, participants will be aware of the risks and and hazards encountered when working with slinger signalling within the wind industry. They will learn to control and mitigate those risks and hazards.
GWO SLS training will teach the participants to appropriately respond in the event of a hazardous situation and to increase their safety through the proper use of personal protective equipment, emergency equipment, and procedures.
For prices and bookings, contact Sheila Deroche on (985) 855 7538 or training.us@alphawindservice.com
