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SEAMLESS RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
“Our aim is to provide seamless radio communications coverage across ports and harbours, the offshore windfarm sites, transit routes and back to onshore or offshore marine co-ordination centres. Access to our system will be available to both fixed vessel and hand-portable radios.
TAILORED SYSTEMS FOR OFFSHORE WINDFARMS
“Our wide-area system, utilising multi-site radio repeaters linked by broadband and satellite, will provide operators and sub- contractors with secure, seamless and uninterrupted radio coverage for existing and future windfarms along the east coast, backed up with multi-level redundancy and secure voice and data logs. We will tailor the system to suit the geographical and technical requirements of each of our customers,” Jennifer concluded.
EQUIPMENT RENTED
WaveCom equipment will be rented from Fern Communications as and when required by customers reducing capital expenditure.
CASE STUDY 2 – SSI ENERGY
WINDFARM WORKERS WHO CAN ALSO SAVE LIVES
Paramedics who double as technicians are to be introduced to offshore windfarms to ensure casualties get expert medical help in the first ‘golden hour’. Experienced life-savers are being trained for operational duties on remote turbines so they can carry out a combined maintenance and medical role with the help of a maximum £50,000 SCORE grant.
The company has specialised in radio communication solutions since it was founded in 2002 by Jennifer and Clive Cushion. Some 70pc of its work is in the energy field where it has experience and expertise. “There are geographical and technical challenges to providing radio coverage off the east coast. The flat coastal landscape provides few high vantage points to suitably locate antenna at the height needed to give the required offshore coverage,” explained Jennifer. “Challenges relating to the availability of suitable broadband infrastructure also had to be overcome.
FULLY-EQUIPPED TECHNICIAN PARAMEDICS
The pioneering concept by SSI Energy means fully-equipped technician paramedics will be able to tackle medical emergencies such as strokes, heart and asthma attacks and anaphylactic shock, as well as the full range of traumatic emergencies including open fracture and falls from height. At present the only medical cover is
provided by fellow technicians who are required to undergo only the two-day GWO (Global Wind Organisation) first aid course, compared to the four years of paramedics.
SSI Managing Director Duncan Higham
INDUSTRY FUNDING EXPERT HELP IN THE ‘GOLDEN HOUR’
This service enables patients and casualties to get expert help in the first ‘golden hour’ which is vital to boosting chances of recovery, even more important now windfarms are being built further offshore.
SSI MEDIC SHOCKED TECHNICIAN BACK TO LIFE
Earlier this year SSI medic technician Peter Lane saved a colleague who was taken ill at a wind turbine training centre in Ireland.
The medic spotted the symptoms, realised it was a heart attack, and drove him to a filling station seven miles away to rendezvous with an ambulance. The casualty twice went into cardiac arrest at the garage, but Peter had grabbed a defibrillator from the training centre, shocked him back to life and gave CPR resuscitation until the casualty was sufficiently stabilised to be able to able to be moved to hospital. The casualty has made a full recovery after having stents fitted to his heart.
TECHNICIAN MEDICS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
SSI Managing Director Duncan Higham said the incident was the perfect example of the difference between life and death technician medics could have on offshore, and onshore windfarms. Duncan explained: “Windfarms are
pretty safe but if someone gets hurt or taken ill it could be a long wait for a helicopter or lifeboat.
“If the casualty had been up an 80m turbine offshore, with only a first aider on hand, he would have been unlikely to survive.”
SSI Energy
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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