Developers and owners of wind turbines have a duty to ensure the safety of the general public and their own staff.However,there are currently no gidelines for dealing with potential deangers arising from ice thrown off wind turbines.This puts debelopers,owners,planning authroities and insurers in a difficult positionl.To rectitfy this ituaiton,the work presented here had commenced in orde to produce an authoritative set of guidelines.Initial work has resulted in the development of a risk assessment methodology whihc has been used to demonstrete that the risk of being struck by ice thrown from a turbine is diminishingly small at distances greater than approximately 250 m from the turbine in a climate where moderate icing occurs.
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