RECommendations for Offshore wind turbines. Task 2: Labour safety (health and safety)

<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none"><wegspanlang=EN-GB>The investigation of Labour safety at offshore Wind Energy installations has been focussed on aspects like licensing, health and safety, and labour safety influencing the wind turbine design. In other words: are there any regulations that determine e.g. the turbine design, or limit certain design solutions?</wegspan> <p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none"><wegspan lang=EN-GB>The investigation resulted in the following general conclusions:</wegspan> <ol style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><wegspan lang=EN-GB>Uniform guidelines for all European countries having an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on the North Sea are not possible at the moment. Every country has his own licensing authorities.</wegspan> <li class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><wegspan lang=EN-GB>New HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) procedures have to be developed, based on the existing knowledge of offshore oil companies and maintenance companies and institutes. </wegspan> <li class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><wegspan lang=EN-GB>It could not be concluded that health and safety provisions will have (limiting) influence on the design of the offshore wind turbines. All measures, procedures, and provisions that deal with health and safety, need to be assessed and approved individually.</wegspan> <li class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><wegspan lang=EN-GB>There is an urge to uniform offshore wind turbine access facilities and procedures.</wegspan> </ol>