National Maritime College of Ireland

Renewable UK – Marine Safety Training

The Renewable UK Marine Safety Training (MST) course  will commence at the NMCI in February 2012.

The MST is designed to meet the basic training and competence requirements for all personnel transiting and transferring to and from offshore renewable facilities.

The course has approval from Renewable UK (formerly known as BWEA) which is the voice of wind and marine energy and the UK’s leading trade association representing the interest of the renewable power sector.  This training standard has been developed in consultation with key industry representatives covering OEM’s, developers, training providers, construction and supply chain partners and key industry stakeholders.

On successful completion of training the delegate will be deemed to have demonstrated basic knowledge and understanding of:

• General health and safety duties of employers to provide training and ensure competence of employees

• Personal responsibilities of employees and the self employed

• Overview of legislation relevant to offshore operations

• Offshore hazards

• Role of IMO MCA HSE & MAIB

• General standards of conduct for vessel operations

• PPE requirements for vessel transit & transfer

• Procedure for reporting incidents, accidents and near misses for offshore operations

• Housekeeping risks relevant to vessel operations

• Safe methods of personnel transfer to and from a vessel

• Safe methods of equipment transfer to and from a vessel

• Appreciate relevance of different turbine designs (size/layout) to transfer methods

• Appreciate relevance of different company/site specific H&S procedures and rules

• Recognition of the signs symptoms, and understanding of first responder actions to hypothermia and ingestion of water.

• Procedures for vessel emergencies

• Procedures for facility emergencies

• Procedures for rescue and recovery at sea

• SAR helicopter passenger safety and emergency actions

• Basic first aid actions and common equipment in the marine environment.

Please see the webpage for the relevant pre-requisites

We are currently taking bookings for the course, for further enquiries please contact services@nmci.ie/ + 353 214970609

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SEFtec NMCI Offshore Visits E-ON Wind Farm

SEFtec NMCI Offshore Training Ltd, specialists in offshore training, recently visited the E-ON Offshore Wind Farm, the ‘Robin Rigg’. This is located just off the coast of Workington in Cumbria.

E-ON UK is the UK’s leading energy company and they are one of the UK’s leading energy suppliers and the second largest electricity generator in Britain. They are part of E-ON; the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas company, which has its headquarters in Germany.

In the UK E-ON’s focus is on wind, both onshore and offshore, dedicated biomass and marine. Currently, they have 18 operational onshore and three offshore wind farms. In 2007 they completed construction on one of the UK’s largest dedicated biomass power stations, the award winning Steven’s Croft in Lockerbie. Robin Rigg, the third and largest offshore wind farm in the UK is located in the Solway Firth and became operational in 2010.

The recent visit to the “Robin Rigg” which was very kindly arranged by Sally Shenton -Site Manager; proved to be quite beneficial and without a doubt will impress upon us what elements of training are most relevant to technicians, engineers etc and those who are tasked to work in such environments.

SEFtec NMCI Offshore Training Ltd are specialists in Offshore training as are in the process of achieving Renewable UK’s MST( Marine Safety Training)  standard  which is a crucial step for the NMCI in 2011. Our ambition is to be a centre of excellence in offshore renewable training for the Irish and the British Isles as a whole.

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