Honeywell Industrial Safety has announced their 2016 Honeywell Safety Training schedule, which includes live demonstrations and hands-on training courses by experienced wind technicians and instructors. The schedule includes open enrollment courses in more than 30 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as courses at the Honeywell safety training facilities in Franklin, Pennsylvania and…

Electrical professionals seeking training and continuing education credits can now search Shermco’s course catalog online, register and pay for classes scheduled throughout the U.S. and Canada.

By John Salentine | Vice President Hammerhead Industries (Gear Keeper) Wind turbine blades require year-round monitoring, maintenance, and repairs to ensure maximum production and efficiency. As of 2014, there were an estimated 700,000 blades in operation globally with an average of 3,800 incidents of annual blade failure, according to a report released from renewable energy…

Paul Dvorak / Editor At the recent WINDPOWER 2015 Conference in Orlando, a message of urgency came from the safety community in getting wind techs certified for particular tasks. It is no surprise that wind-turbine maintenance involves hundreds of tasks with more coming as wind-turbine OEMs add to their equipment portfolio. What’s more, safety rules…

By Louis C. Dorworth Division Manager-Direct Services Abaris Training Resources, Inc. As wind farms age and new turbines grow in height and blade size, the demand for maintenance and repair services is increasing at a rapid rate. Because of this, many new companies have emerged in recent years to meet the demands of wind farm…

AssurX, Inc., an enterprise quality management, risk and regulatory-compliance software developer, has announced the release of the latest update to its AssurX training management software. The company says AssurX training management software is an intuitive, flexible system that ensures proper training compliance, even in complex, fluid environments.   Mapping precisely to your real-world operations, the training…

Along with being one of the top turbine manufacturers, Siemens is also strongly committed to safety in the wind industry. In 2013, the company opened a 40,000-square-foot Wind Service Training Center in Orlando, Florida. It is one of four wind-training centers that Siemens operates globally. In this WindTalk podcast Billy Watts, the CEO for Siemens’…

Professionals from across the wind industry were joined by government agency experts this week at a Suzlon training facility near Chicago for a battery of drills to promote safety in the fast-growing industry. Thirty-two safety professionals from two federal agencies – the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Department of…

GE announced that it will build a new wind education center in Shenyang, China. The approximately 500-square-meter facility will be built on the same campus as GE’s current manufacturing operation in Shenyang. Located in the largest city of Liaoning Province, the new education center will offer a variety of training courses intended for GE field…

With over 25,000 MWs of wind power installed, Siemens is one of the top turbine manufacturers and service providers worldwide. They even hold the record for the world’s largest single onshore order to date: a 1,050-MW turbine order from MidAmerican Energy in Iowa. According to the company’s website, Siemens’ platform strategy for onshore and offshore…

Renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, is adding a new string to its bow with the launch of an onshore renewables Site Manager Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS). The course, which is CITB approved, is the first of its kind to be designed specifically for renewables professionals in the UK and will be delivered by SgurrEnergy’s health and…

UL provides services aimed at helping cut through the complexity of bringing wind-powered equipment to the global market. They provide knowledge and expertise to help customers navigate across the supply chain from compliance and regulatory issues to trade challenges and market access. UL will be exhibiting at WINDPOWER 2015 May 18-21 in Orlando, Florida (Booth…

Repair instructor, Lou Dorworth, of Abaris Training recently wrote an article on new techniques for repairing wind turbine blades (which will be featured in our June issue). In this Wind Talk podcast, he explains the types of blade damage commonly found, conventional methods for repairs, and new ideas for returning damaged blades into like-new.

ABB, in conjunction with the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), will once again host a free pre-show technical training seminar on the latest technologies and best practices prior to the start of AWEA Windpower 2015. The three-hour training session is titled, “ABB Wind Farm Best Practices Series: Optimizing Your Wind Farm’s Output, While Improving Forecasting…

A trained falcon named Houdini darts and soars next to a wind power plant in the shadow of the Colorado Rockies, gathering radar data that could someday save the lives of his avian brethren. Peregrine gyrfalcon Houdini is the VIP guest of the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and he performs his strategic…

Enerpac has developed an in-house training program, Enerpac Academy, to offer Enerpac product operators and maintenance staff the opportunity to be trained in the use and maintenance of high-pressure hydraulic tools. With a focus on how these tools work and how they should be maintained, Enerpac Academy enables operators to learn how to use the…

Honeywell announced the 2015, open enrollment, Miller® Fall Prevention & Protection training schedule. This comprehensive offering of fall prevention and protection classes is part of the Honeywell Safety Institute, an initiative aimed at providing educational tools, resources, and training programs that inspire workers to implement good safety practices in industries around the globe. The schedule…

Technical school for wind techs is usually about 18 to 24 months. But you can’t learn everything in a classroom. Sometimes you have to climb a tower, many towers. And that is good way to learn. But after a few years out of the classroom, it’s a good idea to come back and find out…

Capital Safety, home of the DBI-Sala, Uniline, and Protecta brands of fall protection equipment, today announces the opening of a new wind turbine training structure center at its North American headquarters in Red Wing, Minnesota. The new training structure will be used to provide a variety of rescue and climbing training scenarios for the wind…

Tech Safety Lines says it will partner Rope Partner Inc. to provide reliable safety training for wind turbine technicians. Tech Safety is known for a patented SRK-11, a Self-Rescue Kit certified by Underwriters Laboratories that provides immediate and independent rescue capabilities to wind-industry technicians working at heights on turbine towers. The new alliance with Rope…