GWO Fire Awareness (FAW) Training

The aim of this module is to give the participants the basic knowledge and skills through theoretical and practical training. Participants should be able to prevent fires, make appropriate judgements when evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel and ensure all are safely accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire. If the incident is judged to be safe, the participants should be able to efficiently extinguish an initial fire by using basic hand held firefighting equipment.

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.
Personnel that perform job functions that have 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.

Prerequisites

 All personnel participating in this training shall be medically fit and capable of fully participating. Participants’ signatures testifying to their medical fitness will be collected prior to the start of the module. Furthermore, participants shall have created a personal participant profile in WINDA and provide their own WINDA ID prior to completing the BST training.

For more details about course prerequisites please contact our administration desk.

Module Content

• Legislation
• Fire combustion and fire spread
• Fire extinction
• Fire prevention
• Firefighting equipment in a WTG
• Practice and scenario-based training