09:00 Registration & coffee

09:30 Chairman’s welcome & opening remarks

Kevin Lennon
Head of HSE
Vattenfall, UK

09:35 Looking for Excellence- Learning from Experience. A UK perspective of the current and future health & safety agenda within the European Renewable Energy sector

• Understanding the commonalities and complexities of the sector
• Balancing the benefits of harmonization with the need to innovate and drive the safety agenda
• Vital importance of safety from concept to decommissioning
• Need to share and learn from experience and to reduce the barriers to enable this to occur
• Recognizing the vital role of investing in training & skills

Chris Streatfeild
Director of Health & Safety
RenewableUK, UK

10:15 Industry insight: The future Wind Offshore challenge

• New risks for the industry to be mitigated
• Rescue strategy and interaction with authorities
• Training of employees, subcontractors and others
• Can the learnings from the oil & gas industry be utilized?

Claus Rose
Director EHS
Siemens Energy Service Renewables, Denmark

10:55 Developer's insight: Specific risk based offshore wind health & safety issues

• Looking at current high-risk tasks
• Proactive design based on detailed risk assessment
• Design standardisation

Dr. Adi Jens Kammel
Senior HSSE Manager Offshore
E.ON Climate & Renewables GmbH, Germany

11:35 Refreshment break & networking

12:05 Case Study: HSE best practice cases and how to move on

• A hands-on presentation of specific best practice examples
• What solutions do we already have in place and what do we need to improve?
• What does our data show?
• What can we learn from other businesses?

Jakob Nielsen
Head of EHS Offshore
New Markets and Technology
Siemens Wind Power A/S, Denmark

12:45 Developer's insight: Management of Occupational Health and Safety on Construction projects for Offshore Wind

• Learning from the experience of Vattenfall Renewables
• General situation and best practice

Kevin Lennon
Head of HSE
Vattenfall, UK

13:25 Networking luncheon

14:50 Developer's insight: An operator’s perspective: HSE in wind power development

• Hazards – perception and reality
• Cooperation and conflict
• Pragmatism
• Is wind power a 'special case'?

Gavin Gibson
UK HSE Manager
DONG Energy Power (UK) Ltd, UK

15:30 Case Study: HSE kick of mobilisation – building a project related HSE culture within a multinational environment

• HOCHTIEF`s HSE Strategy for Offshore projects
• Development of a HSE concept for the construction of a met mast
• HSE requirements for floating equipment

Dirk Schreiber
Q HSE Manager
HOCHTIEF Solutions AG, Germany

16:10 Refreshment break & networking

16:40 Case Study: Ensuring sound HSE procedures during installation of offshore wind foundation structures

• Developing a HSE strategy and procedures
• Ensuring smooth project implementation through sound HSE procedures
• Tools and designs to enhance personnel safety
• Case study and lessons learned

Jurjan Blokland
Operations Manager
Ballast Nedam Offshore, The Netherlands

17:20 Case Study: Improving offshore wind installation operations through utilising a safety culture and based upon lessons learned from Alpha Ventus

• Introduction on NorWind Installer and its installation services in the offshore wind industry
• Background on the safety culture utilised during the Alpha Ventus installation work
• Implementing a safety focus in the development of new installation methods and vessels for the offshore wind industry
• HSE goals when working offshore and how to measure and achieve them

Ivan Østvik
VP Business Development
NorWind Installer, Norway

18:00 Closing remarks

End of conference day one

18:30 Meeting point in the lobby of Swissôtel Bremen and start of the tour through the city of Bremen

19:30 Dinner at "Ratskeller"