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Health and safety

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31/1/2024 Comment / Emma McIvor

Ensuring health and safety keeps pace with growth of the onshore wind sector

As renewable sectors like the wind industry have emerged and grown, they have required new approaches to health, safety and environment (HSE) practices. Here, Emma McIvor AMEI, Technical Manager at SafetyOn, the health and safety organisation for the onshore wind sector, gives an update on the sector and the centrality of safe operations for the industry.

Wind

11/6/2025 News

Onshore wind expands (with major project start-ups in Africa and Australia) and grows safer in the UK

Africa’s largest wind farm has been commissioned in Egypt; a new wind project in New South Wales is to play a key role in the Australian state’s energy transition; and the UK’s onshore wind sector has achieved its safest year in half a decade.

Offshore wind

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26/5/2026 Comment / Mariana Carvalho

The risk profile of offshore wind operations is lower than offshore oil and gas

Next month, offshore wind health and safety body G+ (which is supported by the Energy Institute) will publish its annual safety report. The safety record of offshore wind should be held up as a good example of industrial safety. In an expanding industry, injury rates are significantly lower than when G+ first started collecting data. But it might not seem like that, since with this growth has come greater scrutiny of risk management in the industry, writes G+ Technical Manager Mariana Carvalho AMEI.

Environmental pollution

1/5/2024 News

Scientists urge action over toxic pollution from solar power waste in Africa

Researchers from The University of Manchester investigating waste management practices for off-grid solar technologies in Malawi say they have discovered life-threatening quantities of lead pollution caused by improperly-managed battery waste.

Health and safety

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14/9/2022 Comment / Dr Stephen Bater

Why are process safety incidents still happening and what can we do to stop them?

Identifying, evaluating the risks of, and ultimately preventing accidents and incidents should be of the utmost importance to anyone working with hazardous chemicals, but this is not always the case. Dr Stephen Bater FEI, Director of Process Safety Auditing Limited, recommends implementing the EI Process Safety Management Framework to maintain safe operations.

Health and safety

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12/3/2025 Comment / Sandeep Tummalapalli

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Sandeep Tummalapalli AMEI

Sandeep Tummalapalli AMEI is an Asia HSE Business Partner for Topsoe. He explains how the Energy Institute’s health and safety initiatives, as well as its Executive Training Programme, has had a transformative impact on his career.

Wind

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13/8/2025 Comment / Hafiz Salim

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Hafiz Salim AMEI, Senior HV Equipment Engineer, Ørsted

The electrical engineer has crossed the Pacific Ocean and North America and is now working on one of the US’ first-ever offshore wind projects. He reflects on the support he has received along the way from the Energy Institute.

Fire fighting

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30/11/2022 Comment / Laszlo Komaromi

Forever chemicals – a burning issue for the energy sector

Laszlo Komaromi, Senior Technical Officer at the Energy Institute, outlines the key issues around the transition to PFAS-free firefighting foams used in the energy sector. These are discussed in the latest edition of EI Model Code of Safe Practice Part 19: Fire precautions at petroleum refineries and bulk storage installations (EI 19), authored by Paul Watkins and Dr Niall Ramsden, ENRg Consultants, and due to be published in December 2022.*

Process safety

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30/6/2026 Comment / James Steven

Who owns electrolyser process safety?

The tools needed to manage hydrogen production by electrolysis already exist, but ownership and responsibility for applying process safety is often vague. James Steven, Business Development and Growth Manager, Energy Systems, DNV, argues that as more electrolyser projects are designed and built, ambiguity is leaving important risks unaddressed.

Offshore wind

14/6/2023 News

Safety performance improves alongside surge in offshore wind activity

G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6mn hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year, with safety metrics continuing on a downward trajectory.

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Ensuring health and safety keeps pace with growth of the onshore wind sector

Onshore wind expands (with major project start-ups in Africa and Australia) and grows safer in the UK

The risk profile of offshore wind operations is lower than offshore oil and gas

Scientists urge action over toxic pollution from solar power waste in Africa

Why are process safety incidents still happening and what can we do to stop them?

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Sandeep Tummalapalli AMEI

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Hafiz Salim AMEI, Senior HV Equipment Engineer, Ørsted

Forever chemicals – a burning issue for the energy sector

Who owns electrolyser process safety?

Safety performance improves alongside surge in offshore wind activity