COMMUNICA No.5 COMMUNICA no.5 V2.0 | Page 39

Reaching COMMUNICA | Issue Five Training and HSEQ is paramount in the delivery of overhead networks. Each engineer must attend a specialist climbing course before working in the vicinity of the powerline. Pictured here, John Henry Group training staff are completing a climbing exercise on a mock-up pylon in Staffordshire and are hanging off of the pylon’s arm to retrieve a flag. The picture gives a flavour of the heights involved. On top of this, John Henry Group engineers hold qualifications including PRINCE2, National Grid Competent Person NSI4: Working on OHL 132kV, 275kV and 400kV, NSI6: Demarcation in sub stations/working on or near equipment in sub stations, NSI8: Safe use of MEWPs, Lorry Loaders, Vehicles, Cranes and Objects in a Sub Station. HSG47: identification of U/G apparatus. 39 | | 17