Compliance with legal requirements for safety, health, and environmental (SHE) performance is no longer sufficient for forward-thinking organisations. As the wind industry continues to expand into new geographical markets and challenging environments, clear management of SHE risks becomes critical. DNV applies systematic approaches and proactive programs from decades of experience in the energy and maritime industries to help manage and mitigate SHE risks for clients.
DNV is a world leader in managing SHE risk throughout the life cycle of a wide range of energy-related projects. For the wind industry, we deliver strategic and tactical support to owners and operators of wind energy projects to help them safely and responsibly improve their business performance. Our services cover activities from conceptual design through full-scale operation, for both onshore and offshore wind projects.
Risk-based decision support
There are many risks facing a business including those associated with HSE, investment, operations, stakeholder acceptance and reputation. DNV offers a full range of risk-based services to support wind projects ranging from early stage concept risk evaluations through to formal hazard identification, consequence and likelihood analysis and risk assessment. DNV assists clients in making appropriate strategic and operational decisions to ensure improved SHE (and business) performance over the lifetime of the operation.
Management systems and performance measures
DNV’s extensive experience working within the onshore, offshore and marine industries helps minimise the time, effort, and resources needed for a wind farm operator to create effective management systems, optimise existing management systems, and certify management systems according to established standards.
DNV’s management system portfolio includes services based on ISRS8, a world-leading system for measuring, improving, and demonstrating safety, environmental, and business performance.
Environmental impact and assessment
DNV provides integrated services in the area of environmental risk management including the following:
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental risk assessment
- Environmental status and monitoring
- Ecological impact assessment
- Biodiversity and community studies
- Resource and sensitivity mapping
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Corporate reporting and independent review/verification
- Environmental due diligence
- Public consultation, risk communication and conflict resolution
- Life-cycle assessment.
Incident planning and investigation
DNV works with companies to establish effective planning for incidents, emergencies, and other undesired events through developing and maintaining effective response plans that control their risk exposure. In addition, we can mobilize teams with deep technical competence to assist incident investigations and provide decision support moving forward.
DNV routinely conducts incident root cause investigations to support the wind industry. Combining our technical competence and independent position allows us to build trust and confidence among stakeholders that incident causes are being fully investigated and risk exposures effectively managed. Our expertise in such diverse areas as wind turbine blade failure, lightning damage, corrosion and material properties, and fire and explosion analysis is used to both assist in incident investigations and develop effective response plans.
Human factors and safety cultures
DNV works closely with clients helping to design processes and work systems that accommodate people issues carefully and systematically, both through development of positive cultures and understanding of human error. DNV has a system's perspective on safety culture that takes interactions between man, organisation and technology (MTO) into account. This means DNV's programmes are able to address all relevant performance-shaping factors that have a strong influence on safety performance. DNV focuses on the possible interfaces (human-machine-organisation) within a work system during all activities and operations, including during upset or incidents, first to minimise the opportunity for human error, and second to minimise the consequences should human error occur.
DNV delivers services related to establishment and benchmarking of safety cultures within an organisation. As the wind industry expands, we will help ensure that consistent knowledge and behaviour exists at all levels in order to propagate strong safety cultures throughout an organisation.
Operational SHE
DNV offers a wide range of services aimed at improving the operational performance of companies working in the wind energy industry across the SHE subject area during planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of wind projects around the world.
DNV’s hands-on experience with all the major wind turbine designs as well as our involvement in many wind farm projects gives us a unique understanding of real-life experience and best practices employed on both onshore and offshore wind farms. In addition, DNV is actively sharing and leveraging experience from other relevant industries into the wind industry. For offshore wind farms, our extensive experience with marine operations, logistics and risk management is invaluable.
Other services
As a leading international risk management organisation, DNV provides a broad spectrum of additional and interrelated services to support clients in improving their business performance. Services include specific training programs, coaching, auditing, independent stakeholder engagement, due diligence assessments and assisting clients in occupational safety and industrial hygiene issues.