Heat Illness Prevention
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Heat-Related Injury Prevention Training Module: Download ↗ |
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Heat-Related Illness Preference Quick Reference Card: Download ↗ |
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Heat Awareness and Tracking Plan: Download ↗ |
American Clean Power
Environmental, Health, and Safety Services
ACP supports the clean energy industry with the environmental, health, and safety resources, data, and tools needed to ensure a safe working environment.
Ensuring a safe clean energy workforce.
Creating a culture of safety is a priority for the U.S. clean energy industry.
ACP and the clean energy industry place a high priority on protecting the safety and health of the clean energy workforce. ACP supports the clean energy industry with the environmental, health, and safety resources, data, and tools needed to ensure a safe working environment.
Key programs include:
- Safety Awareness Campaigns: October is ACP Safety Month, focusing on key areas to help keep employees healthy and safe.
- Safety Data Collection: Every year, ACP collects data on the safety and health performance of the industry to help companies benchmark themselves against their peers, improve performance, and identify areas of focus for training and other activities. This includes our Safety Incident Alert System.
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Qualified Electrical Workers (QEW) Program for Wind Operations: Guidelines to help companies build their QEW program.
- Qualified Electrical Workers (QEW) Program for Solar PV Operations: Guidelines to help companies build their QEW program.
- Qualified Electrical Workers (QEW) Program for Battery Energy Storage (BESS) Operations: Guidelines to help companies build their QEW program.
ACP engages regularly with federal agencies, including the Center for Disease Control’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). ACP works closely with OSHA, BSEE, and NIOSH to improve worker health and safety, and to better inform the clean energy industry about these agencies and the agencies about the clean energy industry.
If you are interested in further involvement in ACP’s environmental, health, and safety work, please email safety@cleanpower.org.
Tools to help build a safe clean energy workforce.
ACP offers a wide variety of tools and educational materials to help ensure safe workplaces for clean energy workers.
Repower EHS Lessons Learned Survey Results
Lessons for safely repowering wind facilities
The wind industry partially repowered over 12 gigawatts of land-based wind energy facilities in the U.S. between 2015–2021. While the focus on repowering has traditionally been centered around market drivers and economics, this report highlights how to ensure the work is done safely.
In this report, you’ll find lessons learned for development, construction, and operation of repowered facilities from the companies who have done the work. ACP hopes that by sharing these experiences more broadly, we can help with the industry’s continuous improvement on safety performance.
Safety Alert System
ACP has a renewed focus on preventing serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) in the clean energy industry.
As one method to support this aim, ACP is launching a formalized Safety Incident Alert Clearinghouse to share ongoing learnings across the entire industry. This clearinghouse will aggregate anonymous examples of SIFs and near-misses so that the entire industry can quickly address underlying risks that could lead to harm for workers in the industry.
- To submit a Safety Alert please visit: cleanpower.org/environmental-health-and-safety/acp-safety-alert-reporting
- To join the Safety Alert email list please visit: cleanpower.org/environmental-health-and-safety/acp-safety-alert-reporting/safety-alert-signup
For ACP Members interested, please email safety@cleanpower.org.
Offshore Marine Transfer Guidance
ACP has developed Offshore Marine Transfer Guidance with the intent of being utilized as a basis for identifying suitable methods of transferring personnel in various functions while working in North American waters under an approved Safety Management System/Construction and Operations Plan (SMS / COP).
This guidance has been developed to provide a framework for how to execute safe transfer of personnel in the American Offshore Wind Industry. It indicates where further good practices or deviation is required in the American Offshore Wind Industry to provide a framework for how to execute safe transfers. This document also provides recommendations about the split of responsibilities within an organization to properly plan for and execute transfers.
This guidance takes into consideration the following transfer scenarios:
- Transfer from vessel to offshore structure
- Transfer between vessels
- Transfer using walk to work (W2W) gangways
- Identification of hazards and mitigation methods associated with marine transfers
- Protection against drowning, including a risk-based approach to the use of immersion suits
- Crane operated personnel transfer carriers and the use of man baskets for work over water
- Gangways, including motion compensated gangway
- Bridge or accommodation ladders
This resource is free for members – sign in and view product details here. For non-members interested in this resource, please contact membership@cleanpower.org.