MHI Vestas has created a digital safety training mobile app, which has been accredited by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO).
Safety’N’Mind is designed as a digital, gamified substitute for one theoretical training day.
Basic Safety Training, as governed by the GWO, is required of all turbine technicians and needs to be refreshed every other year, which traditionally takes three full days.
MHI Vestas technical and safety training head Elisabeth Mygind said: “We developed the Safety’N’Mind app because we saw an opportunity to innovate within safety training.
“In the end, we wanted to create a fun, gaming environment in which our technicians could refresh their training at their own pace, and in a way that would be most memorable. We believe this innovation adds demonstrable value to our training efforts and, ultimately, to our customers.”
The app is based on micro learning, meaning that participants can experience the course in small doses or all in one sitting.
GWO chief executive Jakob Lau Holst said: “The MHI Vestas digital solution to GWO refresher training is, forgive the pun, very refreshing.
“It incorporates new technologies towards learning and makes clever use of weather downtime in a way that seems to not only provide new efficiencies, but also increase learning.
“The value of good standardized safety training is that is helps create a common safety mindset across the supply chain, which in turn will drive higher efficiency in execution of complex projects.”
The app has been audited by DNV-GL, having met the stringent requirements of the sector’s safety training courses.