COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT SECTION SPONSOR
HIGH-FLYER CONTINUES TO RAISE STANDARDS FOR THE WIND SECTOR
AIS Training’s new £1million state-of-the-art renewable energy training campus has received an overwhelming and positive response since it opened in February with courses running day and night to cope with demand.
In just five months, Queen’s Award- winner, AIS, has trained more than two thousand wind energy delegates in industry courses, approved by GWO and RUK. Purpose-built within a 9,000 sq ft industrial unit, their new centre features a 15 metre long climbing and rescue platform, with 12 stations, incorporating vertical fall-arrest safety systems, evacuation hatch and platform and three technical engineering areas.
OFFSHORE TRAINING VILLAGE It is the latest edition to the company’s existing 150,000 sq ft offshore training village, which trains 17,500 delegates a year and boasts a sea survival pool and specialised training centres for skills such as Rigging and Lifting, Banksman Slinger, CompEx Electrical and Rope Access, as well as an affordable onsite hotel.
The success of AIS’s new wind training campus mirrors a new emerging growth phase for the renewable energy sector. Many companies specialising in various complex roles are planning and gearing up for both new projects and the on-going O&M of existing farms.
JOBS GROWTH FORECAST Studies predict that the wind sector will create 70,000 new jobs over the next ten years and AIS is working closely with industry to provide world-class training, delivering the skilled and competent workers required to meet this demand.
Dave explained: “AIS works closely with industry to ensure we deliver the skilled and competent workers required to meet industry objectives and the needs of tomorrow’s workforce. The wind sector is still growing in maturity unlike the oil and gas industry, so the specific standards and skill-sets required are still in development. AIS is helping the industry to shape standards so that they are tailored to the sector’s unique and challenging environment and ensuring an unrivalled health and safety culture is embedded.
With such high growth expected in the industry, AIS is also planning to open a second on and offshore training village later this summer at the heart of the UK’s wind industry in Grimsby. The village will replicate AIS’s North Shields site featuring a specialist wind training campus and related skills centre with a survival pool and onsite hotel to follow by the end of the year.
INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS Director of AIS Training and Education, Dave Bowyer, believes that the company’s success is down to its unrivalled industry relationships and the realism of its training. These factors combine to create ‘work ready’ individuals equipped with much- needed industry skills.
PREPARATION AND AWARENESS “For example, it’s really important that wind sector workers are well-prepared for what they are going to face when they start working on a wind turbine. It is such a unique environment with sometimes eye-watering heights involved. It sounds obvious but the ability to work at height is a key competency for wind workers – yet amazingly we find that one in five of our wind delegates are terrified of heights.
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