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Safety Guidance for Offshore Renewable Energy Installations
01-07-2025
The Maritime Navigation Safety Guidance for Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OREI) and the Guidance for Search & Rescue and Emergency Response for OREI (Standard Operating Procedure 07-2025) have been published by the Department of Transport and Irish Coast Guard respectively today

Registration Now Open: G+ Electrical Safety Workshop – Incheon, South Korea
30-06-2025
As part of the 2025 G+ Stakeholder Forum programme, G+ is pleased to announce the Electrical Safety Workshop, an in-depth session focused on one of the most critical challenges facing the offshore wind sector today—electrical safety.

New HSE public consultation - inspector transportation
24-06-2025
The UK HSE have released new proposals for inspector transportation to offshore wind facilities - found in section 6 of "Regulatory proposals for Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage and offshore hydrogen production," now available for public consultation. Feedback must be received by 13 August 2025.

Manual Handling Campaign
23-06-2025
We’re delighted to launch the joint G+ and SafetyOn campaign to address manual handling in the wind industry: 4 videos, 1 goal – to get home safe.
Whether you're managing a team or turning the bolts yourself, this series is about protecting the people powering our future.

Entry Permit Holder Training
02-06-2025
The Offshore Infrastructure Regulator has released new guidance to assist training providers seeking approval to deliver entry permit holder training under the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act framework.
The entry permit holder training guideline sets out expectations for delivery of training as well as the OIR’s approach to training approval.

HSR Training Guideline
02-06-2025
The Offshore Infrastructure Regulator has developed new guidance to support training providers who wish to be approved by the OIR to offer health and safety representatives training under the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act framework.
The HSR training guideline sets out application requirements, key training principles and criteria for approval to provide HSR training that will be considered by the OIR.

Offshore Infrastructure Regulator's Health and Safety Representatives handbook
16-05-2025
The first edition of the Offshore Infrastructure Regulator's Health and Safety Representatives handbook has been published on the OIR website. The handbook supports HSRs in their role by providing guidance on the powers available to help create a safer workplace.

Lifting governance GPG - new from the G+
14-05-2025
This new G+ good practice guidance, developed in collaboration with IMCA, aims to share, advance and encourage good practice for the governance of lifting operations in the offshore wind industry, setting out the collective expectations of G+ members.

G+ Annual Stakeholder Forum
31-03-2025
This year, for the first time, we are hosting our in-person forum in the APAC region - join us on the 25 September at the Oakwood Premier in Incheon, South Korea, for our key annual gathering of offshore wind industry professionals committed to advancing health and safety practices. Draft programme now available.

G+ Lifesaving rules
06-11-2024
Lifesaving rules have been used across several industrial sectors for some time with proven success at reducing fatal and serious incidents. Members and associates of G+ assessed the applicability of existing rules in other industries and among members, associates and the supply chain.

New signposting webpage now available
09-09-2024
As world leaders in offshore wind health and safety (H&S), the G+ collaborates with a variety of organisations and often works alongside stakeholders in producing publications to drive improvement in this sector of the industry. However, many of these companies have their own publications and resources, that we have signposted, to further increase awareness and performance of the industry’s endeavours in incident reduction.

G+ Arc Flash GPG published
05-08-2024
The framework was developed in conjunction with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers operating in the US offshore wind industry to generate consensus-based guidance around which developers, OEMs and national safety authorities can work together to allow each to successfully meet their obligations under the applicable regulatory or legislative frameworks.

G+ Stakeholder Forum 2024 video released
07-05-2024
The G+ Stakeholder Forum is an annual event, led by the G+, for anyone working in the offshore wind industry who is passionate about offshore wind health and safety.
The event provides an important forum for the sector to gather to hear and discuss past and future work.

G+ Stakeholder Forum 2022 recordings
21-03-2022
On 8th-9th March 2022, we hosted our annual G+ Stakeholder Forum. The recordings of the Core, North America and APAC events are now available on Youtube and on the Whova platform.

G+ Stakeholder Forum 2022
04-03-2022
G+ will be hosting our annual Stakeholder Forum next week, including a session for APAC from 15:30-17:00 UTC +8 on Wednesday 9th March – and we’d be delighted if you would like to join us!

The new chairperson of the G+
10-01-2022
Delighted to welcome Jakob Nielsen, Director H&S OW Vattenfall, as the new chairperson of the G+.

Renewables: Health, Safety and Sustainability Conference
23-06-2021
Register for the Energy Institute's Renewables: Health, Safety and Sustainability Conference in November 2021.

G+ 2020 Incident data report
23-06-2021
G+ has published its annual incident data report for 2020.

Manual handling and ergonomics case study now available in Mandarin
23-06-2021
The G+ Case study on reducing manual handling and ergonomics related incidents in the offshore wind industry is now available in Mandarin.

G+ Annual Stakeholder Forum 2021 report
22-04-2021
The G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation held its Annual Stakeholder Forum on 03 & 04 March 2021

G+ Annual Stakeholder Forum 2021
27-01-2021
The G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation is delighted to invite you to their annual Stakeholder Forum 2021 on 03 & 04 March 2021. The theme of the event this year will be “worker involvement”

Helicopter operations GPG
22-09-2020
The G+ has released the draft of their Helicopter Operations Good Practice Guidance document for stakeholder review and comment.