How to reduce intervention time of rescue services by more than 50

摘要

One of the main tasks of Health and Safety professionals is to anticipate the most scenazies possible to implement the best organization. Most of these different scenazies focus on the machines, method-statements and training of our companies and contractors. Nevertheless, 2 factors are generally not taken into account for rescue organization, but both are very important in contributing to the reduction of intervention time in the case of accidents: -The presence of other wind farms in the vicinity; -The abilities of external rescuers for intervention in the turbines. A technician working for a maintenance contractor had a serious accident on a French site, where RES is the asset operator. This site is located at the border of three counties - meaning 3 different emergency call centres - and close to three other existing wind farms. Due to the configuration, it took more than 2 hours 30 minutes to rescue the injured technician. This period could have been longer if the injured technician had not been able to exit the turbine, using the ladder helped by his colleague, then luckily met by rescuers at the roadside. This long and unanticipated period was unacceptable for RES.