Day 1 – Theoretical Part

• Introduction
• Legal basics

• Personal protective equipment (PPE)

  • Helmets

  • Protective footwear

  • Gloves, etc.

• Personal fall protection equipment

  • Full-body harness

  • Shock absorbers (operation and fall forces with/without shock absorber)

  • Lanyards

  • Rope-guided fall arrest devices (fixed and mobile)

  • Fall-protection systems: design and function

  • Carabiners

  • Inspections

  • Cleaning

  • Maintenance of PPE

  • End-of-service life criteria for harnesses/ropes/helmets

• Practical exercises:

  • Recognizing damaged PPE — each participant must be able to identify defective PPE

• Safe work in and on a WEA
• Correct use of PPE
• Anchorage points

• Safe behavior depending on the work location

  • Inside the tower

  • Inside the machine house

  • Spinner, rotor blades and associated areas

  • Outside on the tower

• Special authorized work

  • Live electrical work

  • Switching medium-voltage systems

  • Work at control cabinets

• Accidents and rescue

  • Rescue devices / abseil devices

  • Abseil devices with hoist function

  • Overview of rescue procedures

  • Rescue from ladders

  • Abseiling from machine house

• Post-accident behavior

  • Reporting

  • First aid

  • Suspension trauma (countermeasures)

  • Accident statistics and case studies

  • Introduction to the Wind Turbine Emergency Information System (WEA-NIS)

Day 2 – Practical Part

Briefing

• Travel to the wind farm and general behavior rules
• Correct donning of harness and PPE

Practical exercises:

• “Suspension exercise” test for all participants
• Climbing and behavior inside the tower
• Behavior when leaving ladders
• Behavior inside the machine house
• Explanation of emergency stop / shutdown
• Safe conduct with open hatches
• Instruction on access systems (if available)

Rescue drills:

• Rescue from ladder
• Abseiling from machine house

Final Debriefing:

• Participants’ questions
• A few practical tips and recommendations