GWO BST Manual Handling: Full / Refresher

The Manual Handling Module in the GWO Basic Safety Training

This GWO manual handling course goal is to decrease the risk of musculoskeletal injuries that wind technicians who operate in the wind industry may have. The MH safety course seeks to empower participants to carry out their duties and tasks within a wind turbine environment with the utmost safety.

The program of the GWO BST Manual Handling Module promotes knowledge sharing by utilising the expertise of more experienced participants for the benefit of everybody—including first-time participants and refresher basic safety training certificate attendees.

Target audience:

Personnel who will be working in the wind industry or related fields, and will have their duties in a wind turbine environment, usually in physical contact with a wind turbine or an offshore wind structure.

Workers whose jobs have been rated for risk by their boss or someone in charge of their duties at work may be able to lower the risks by getting wind technician training that meets the BST standard.

The aim of the course:

According to the GWO BST Standard, the aim of the manual handling training is to encourage positive manual handling behavior and train future wind turbine workers ability to perform manual handling tasks in a safe manner in the wind turbine industry/environment.

Course content:

The importance of carrying out work duties in a safe and sound manner in accordance with the legislative requirements of geographic work location
Identification aspects of the job tasks that could increase the risk of developing muscular/ skeletal injuries
Safe practises of Manual Handling, including the correct handling of equipment
Identification of signs and symptoms of injuries related to poor Manual Handling techniques and have knowledge of reporting methods
Problem solving approach to Manual Handling in a wind turbine environment
Manual Handling risk reduction techniques

Certificate validity:

24 months

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