Offshore Wind HSE
Offshore Wind HSE
Offshore Wind HSE
IQPCs Wind Series in 2014 will be completed by the 4th International Conference Offshore Wind HSE in
December in Bremen, and we are looking forward to discussing effective health and safety concepts, risk
management and tool assessment with our experts on-site. Before the event, we had the chance to talk to
our expert speaker Enrico Jakobi, HSE Manager Offshore Wind at Vattenfall Europe Windkraft GmbH. Read
the full interview here!
IQPC: The offshore wind industry is quite young,
with lots of room for improvement regarding
processes and HSE standards. Judging from
your perspective, which are the most pressing
challenges right now?
Enrico Jakobi: If you consider the G9 incident data
from 2013 you can see that vessel operations and
lifting activities are the main causes of incidents. At
the DanTysk site we had in total nearly 570 heavy
lifts offshore and in peak times up to 30 vessels in
the field. This leads to two different challenges. On
the one hand you have lifting operations which are
quite well regulated and standardised but here the
implementation has to improve. On the other hand
you have vessel operations, which particularly for
smaller vessels are poorly regulated.
IQPC: We can learn a lot from the oil & gas industry
which has long experience with installation and
operation of offshore platforms, but which are
the specific HSE challenges for offshore wind
parks?
Enrico Jakobi: The wide spread of the installations in
offshore wind parks in terms of number of installations
and distance between them. If you look at oil & gas
the number of installations is rather limited. Looking
at DanTysk for example, we have 80 turbines, 1
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