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Wind Operations and Technical Training

GWO-certified safety and technical training to prepare the offshore and onshore wind workforce for every stage of their career.

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The full wind training stack, delivered globally

Building, commissioning and maintaining a wind farm calls for a workforce that is not only skilled, but consistently safe under demanding conditions. Maersk Training delivers the full GWO training stack – and the specialist technical courses around it – to technicians, electricians, crane operators and site teams across the global wind industry. Our centres and partner network cover Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East, so you can train your people close to where they work.

What this area covers

a sea survival training exercise, with participants in safety helmets and life jackets practising life raft drills in a controlled water environment.

GWO Basic Safety Training (BST)

This course introduces participants to the foundational aspects of self-rescue and safe practices in the wind industry, including first aid, manual handling, fire safety, and working at heights.

This image shows two workers atop a large wind turbine, performing maintenance or inspection. The turbine’s blades are prominently visible against a clear blue sky, highlighting the scale of wind energy infrastructure and the importance of safety and technical expertise in the wind industry.

GWO Basic Technical Training (BTT)

GWO Basic Technical Training equips individuals with essential skills in electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical systems for safe wind turbine operations.

GWO Working at Height - Rescue

GWO Advanced Rescue Training (ART)

Hub, nacelle, tower, basement and single-rescuer scenarios.

GWO First Aid

GWO Enhanced First Aid (EFA)

The purpose of GWO Enhanced First Aid (EFA) is to equip participants with advanced skills to handle medical emergencies in remote, high-risk environments.

Offshore wind farm

GWO Slinger Signaller

Safe lifting operations on wind farms.

GWO High Voltage Operator 2

GWO High Voltage Training

Equip your technicians to work safely with high voltage systems in wind power. Our GWO-certified courses cover switching, isolation, earthing, and cable pulling under a documented safe system of work – preparing your teams for safe operations and future HV authorisation.

a sea survival training exercise, with participants in safety helmets and life jackets practising life raft drills in a controlled water environment.

GWO Basic Safety Training (BST)

This course introduces participants to the foundational aspects of self-rescue and safe practices in the wind industry, including first aid, manual handling, fire safety, and working at heights.

This image shows two workers atop a large wind turbine, performing maintenance or inspection. The turbine’s blades are prominently visible against a clear blue sky, highlighting the scale of wind energy infrastructure and the importance of safety and technical expertise in the wind industry.

GWO Basic Technical Training (BTT)

GWO Basic Technical Training equips individuals with essential skills in electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical systems for safe wind turbine operations.

GWO Working at Height - Rescue

GWO Advanced Rescue Training (ART)

Hub, nacelle, tower, basement and single-rescuer scenarios.

GWO First Aid

GWO Enhanced First Aid (EFA)

The purpose of GWO Enhanced First Aid (EFA) is to equip participants with advanced skills to handle medical emergencies in remote, high-risk environments.

Offshore wind farm

GWO Slinger Signaller

Safe lifting operations on wind farms.

GWO High Voltage Operator 2

GWO High Voltage Training

Equip your technicians to work safely with high voltage systems in wind power. Our GWO-certified courses cover switching, isolation, earthing, and cable pulling under a documented safe system of work – preparing your teams for safe operations and future HV authorisation.

Why Maersk Training

The same standard of wind training, wherever your workforce is.

GWO-certified training centres

GWO-certified training centres in our own sites and through our Powered by Maersk Training partner network.

Offshore-ready facilities

Offshore-ready facilities with sea survival pools, HUET, hub/nacelle mock-ups and working-at-height towers.

Instructors with field experience

Instructors with field experience in wind, offshore and high-risk access environments.

Consistent global standards

The same learning experience in Denmark, the UK, the US, Japan or the Middle East.

Flexible delivery

Scheduled public courses, closed client cohorts and on-site mobilisation where appropriate.