GWO Manual Handling (MH) Training

The purpose of this Module is to encourage positive Manual Handling and ergonomic behaviours, encourage participants to consider alternatives to manual handling through planning and to train participants' ability to perform Manual Handling tasks in a safe manner in the wind turbine industry/environment.

Target Audience

Personnel who will be working in the wind industry or related fields and will have their duties in a wind turbine environment, typically in physical contact with wind turbines or offshore wind structures. Personnel who perform job functions that have been assessed for risk by their employer or their workplace duty holder as a function, where training in accordance with one or more modules of the BST standard can mitigate the identified risks.

Requirement

All personnel participating in this training must be medically fit and able to fully participate. Participants' signatures attesting to their medical fitness will be collected before the start of the module. Furthermore, participants must have created a personal participant profile on WINDA and provided their own WINDA ID before completing the BST training. For further details on course prerequisites, please contact our administration.

Module Content

• Behavioral laws and security
• Anatomy and posture of the spine
• Manual load handling planning
• Steps to prevent injury
• Proper risk control and manual load handling techniques