The Energy Institute’s G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation (G+) has set up a US branch.
The G+ US Focal Group comprises Avangrid, EDF Renewables, Equinor, Orsted and Siemens Gamesa, as well as G+ associates Shell and GE.
G+ aims to bring together major wind operators and manufacturers to share learnings and uphold industry safety standards.
G+ said the local group plans to establish industry-wide health and safety procedures in the US region for offshore wind.
Avangrid environmental, health and safety vice president Dave LaBelle said: “This is an exciting time for the offshore wind industry in North America, and I’m proud to lead this new group of industry partners to power a safety culture based on learning and improving, focusing on collecting and sharing incident data across the industry, development of good practice guidelines, and focused workshops targeting key risks.
“As offshore wind capacity grows, the sector continues to work diligently to ensure safe working practices. There is a real opportunity to develop strong partnerships with industry stakeholders and to leverage common best practice internationally, a core objective of the US Focal Group.”
The first meeting of the new group took place on Tuesday 8 December.
Setup in partnership with the Energy Institute, G+ works to tackle health and safety issues in the industry through four main work programmes: incident data reporting, good practice guidelines, safe by design and learning from incidents.
The new collaborative work in the US market builds on G+ activities already under way across Europe and Asia.