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.
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