3576 G+ Good practice guidelines for unmanned aircraft systems in the offshore wind industry

Overview:

G+, the Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation, has developed this GPG to share, advance and encourage good health and safety practice when using Unmanned Aircraft Systems in support of offshore wind energy projects. In offshore wind operations, many of the controls present for crewed aviation are absent: the market is

open to new and inexperienced operators, unfamiliar with integrated, structured ways of controlling risk, contract expectations and controls on sub-contracting are more relaxed, and some light UAVs are unregulated. Accordingly, the onus is on offshore wind companies to ensure that UASs are effectively incorporated into the wider safety management system applicable to the whole operation. This G+ GPG explains the steps needed to achieve this.