A classroom setup with white safety helmets, safety goggles, and gloves on tables. A pen is on a document titled 'GWO BST Participant Assessment Form.' The room has chairs, a whiteboard, and a wall-mounted screen with a presentation slide for 'The Wind Academy' on heavy and manual handling training.

GWO manual handling 

LOCATION : Blyth

DURATION : 1 day |0.5 day refresher

DETAILS :

This course makes up 1/5 of the GWO BST modules and can be taken as an initial module or as a refresher. 

The training involves teaching how to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries for Wind Technicians and ensure that they carry out work in the safest way possible.  

Target Audience:

New entrants to the offshore wind industry, Refresher is available to be taken over 0.5 days for those wishing to refresh current GWO BST 

Prerequisites: 

  • WINDA ID. [Click here to register if you haven’t already] 

  • Maximum participant weight of 125kg.  

  • Good standard of fitness and ideally passed an OGUK or similar medical and Chester Step fitness test.