GWO Basic Safety Training Sea Survival
Included Boat Transfer Refresher

Description of the course
Target group
  • 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.
  • Personnel that perform job functions that has been risk assessed by their employer or their workplace duty holder as a function, where training according to one or more modules of the BST standard may mitigate of the identified risks.
Objectives of the course
The aims of this Sea Survival Refresher Training are to refresh the participants prior experiences, knowledge, skills, and abilities to enable participants, through practical training, to act safely and responsibly and to take the correct preventive actions in all aspects of offshore operations from shore to installation vessel (or WTG) and vice versa. This is both during normal operations and in an offshore wind energy environment emergency.

After successfully having completed this Sea Survival Refresher Training, the participants can:
  • Take responsibility for their own and fellow employees’ safety in work situations as well as in emergency situations in an offshore work environment (Ability, intermediate level)
Approval



The GWO BSTr Sea Survival module is approved by Global Wind Organisation (GWO).
Student feedback mark
Average student feedback mark for training course GWO BSTR Sea Survival (Riga): 4.68
Average student feedback mark for training course GWO BSTR Sea Survival (Klaipeda): 4.93
Course contents
Lesson 1 - Introduction;
Lesson 2 - Sea Survival Skill Stations;
Lesson 3 - Sea Survival Scenarios;
Lesson 4 -Training review.
Delegate prerequisites
  • All personnel participating in refresher training shall be medically fit and capable of fully participating.
  • Participation in a course according to the GWO standards requires a special identification number for each participant. Each person must have this so-called “WINDA identification number (WINDA-ID)”.

Please register yourself or your employees with the Global Wind Organisation and provide us with your WINDA-ID or enter it directly when registering in our training portal.
Registering for your WINDA-ID is very simple and only requires you to enter your name.
Duration of the training course
One day.
Price
  • Riga/Latvia – 250 EUR per person;
  • Klaipeda/Lithuania – 220 EUR per person.
Certificate validity
Certificate is valid 2 years.
Training approaches and equipment:
  • Theoretical tasks with presentations and visualizations;
  • Group workshops;
  • Case studies;
  • Practical exercises in workshops;
  • Practical exercises using real life equipment;
  • Professional instructors with industry experience

Any equipment used during this GWO training module shall meet or exceed the minimum requirements of the national standards in the country where the training is taking place. When working in a country where there is no applicable national standard then the equipment shall meet or exceed the minimum requirements of the European standards.
Course limitations:
The maximum number of participants is 12 persons for one instructor for theoretical and 6 persons for instructor for practical exercises.
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