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SafetyOn Safe by Design workshop report: Ice fall and ice throw
- Published: October 2024
- REF/ISBN: 978 1 78725 444 2
- Edition: 1st
- Status: Current
One of SafetyOn’s main work areas is the Safe by Design (SbD) programme, which brings experts together to collaborate on specific identified issues in a focused effort to reduce risk within the onshore wind industry through better design.
The objectives of the SbD ice fall/ice throw workshop included the following:
- To examine control measures in place used to prevent the risk of injury from ice fall/ice throw from wind turbine generators (WTG).
- To identify potential hazards and opportunities to design out hazards and minimise risks.
- To produce the report of recommendations for design and process changes for the industry to consider in future developments.
The approach taken to deliver the workshop and this report included:
- An incident data review.
- A literature review.
- A pre-workshop hazard identification (HAZID) study.
- Facilitation of the SbD workshop.
- Reporting of SbD workshop findings.
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