EMERGENCY RESPONSE
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS ARE NOT JUST A REQUIREMENT, THEY
SAVE LIVES Whichever way you look at it, planning to deal with an incident or emergency on a windfarm is essential.
The structure of a wind turbine and the remote location of the wind farms present unique challenges in an emergency situation. Effective planning and preparation will help ensure the welfare of your workforce and maintain business continuity.
HOW WELL PREPARED IS YOUR ORGANISATION? Emergency response plans should be living and breathing documents that are tested and reviewed on a regular basis. When were your emergency response plans last tested? What lessons did you learn? Have improvements been implemented?
As the location of wind farms becomes increasingly remote, incident response and management is becoming ever more challenging. To ensure an effective response, it is essential that emergency response plans are robust, effective and workable.
WHERE DO YOU BEGIN WHEN DEVELOPING AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN?
Follow these simple steps to start the planning process… >> Make a list of the potential incidents that could cause an injury, require medical attention or impact on business operations
>> Ensure all reasonable controls are in place to prevent these incidents from happening
>> Determine the most suitable methods of responding, controlling and managing the potential incidents should they occur
>> Document your findings and communicate with stakeholders
>> Ensure that sufficient resources are available and personnel are suitably trained
>> Test your procedures and update where necessary
>> Ensure responders remain current and train regularly
REVIEW YOUR STATUS Unless you are confident that your emergency response plans are robust, that you have sufficient resources and your workforce is suitably trained, you
should review your status. This will mean that you have to take the appropriate steps to improve the level of incident response provision or the wider process.
The only way to be confident in your emergency response plans is to test them. Set up exercise scenarios based on your list of potential incidents, test all areas of your planning not just the tactical response. Identify what worked well, look for areas of improvement, and implement changes for the future. It is sensible to seek third party support to run exercise scenarios, choose the right specialist and they will not only ensure that your plans are thoroughly tested, but will provide impartial recommendations for improvement.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT SPECIALIST EMERGENCY RESPONSE SUPPORT… n Valid experience – ensure that your chosen provider is proficient at responding to and managing real emergency incidents. Confirm that they are practiced in the development and testing of emergency response plans. Check that they have the knowledge to draw from to validate best practice. Ask them to provide evidence that they have experienced the implementation of emergency response at real life incidents.
n Scenario-based training – check to see if they have the resources and infrastructure to recreate your site-specific scenarios.
n Flexible delivered solutions – do they have the flexibility, resources and competency to deliver live scenarios to test all areas of your response plans including rescues, medical intervention, management and coordination and business continuity? Confirm that
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