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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.

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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:

ACP engages regularly with federal agencies, including the Center for Disease Control’s , the Department of Labor’s and the . 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 [email protected].

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.

Safety First Learnings

The people of the clean energy workforce are the heartbeat of our industry, and the importance of their safety cannot be understated. Learning from past incidents and near misses helps us prevent future ones.

To support this effort, ACP has launched itsÌýSafety First LearningsÌýto share ongoing learnings across the clean energy industry. Use the form below to submit incidents and near misses, so that the entire industry can quickly address underlying risks that could lead to harm for workers in the industry. Submitted reports are kept anonymous and distributed to ACP members on a biweekly basis.

  1. Submit a Safety Alert here.
  2. ÌýTo 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 [email protected].

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 – .ÌýFor non-members interested in this resource, please contact [email protected].

Repower EHS Lessons Learned Survey Results

Lessons for safely repowering wind facilitiesÌý

An image from ACP's "Repower EHS Lessons Learned Survey Results" resource, including 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.Ìý

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.Ìý

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