Winners Announced in GWO Safety and Training Awards 2021

Global Wind Organisation welcomed award winners from across the world to Copenhagen on November 24th for its inaugural GWO Safety and Training Awards.

With finalists coming from GWO certified safety training providers on every continent, the first ever awards were designed to highlight the excellence found throughout the GWO training network. By entering one of the seven Training Team of the Year categories safety training providers amply showed how they were adapting to the challenges of training in the pandemic and other best practices. Judged by a panel of 11 industry experts, competition was tough.

Of course while there could be only one winner, the judges were so impressed with the standard of entries, they created two additional ‘highly commended’ prizes from among the five finalists in each category.

“Jakob Lau Holst, CEO of Global Wind Organisation, presented the winners with their trophies, adding that they will surely become known as, “the GWOscars”

“It was a real pleasure to celebrate the very best our network of training providers has to offer at the GWO Safety & Training Awards 2021. The standard amongst the finalists was extremely high and we were thrilled to have so many at the ceremony in Copenhagen, traveling as they did from countries like Brazil, South Africa, Australia and from across Europe. The awards programme was designed to shine a light on the instructors and teams of professionals from GWO training providers who go beyond the norm and I am confident we achieved this objective.”

At the ceremony the seven Training Team of the Year finalists were supplemented by a further two award winners in individual categories at contrasting stages of their careers. First up was the Young Achiever of the Year category. GWO was delighted to award Karolina Jastrzębska of Windhunter Academy in Poland with the trophy.

Finally, the judges selected an individual for their overall contribution to the sector. This was presented to Claus Rose, Vice President of EHS at GE Renewable Energy, in recognition for his many years dedicated to safety and training in the wind sector.

Training Team of the Year Award Winners

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• Maersk Training in Humber (Maersk Training in the UK) Training Team of the Year - Newcomer
• Maersk Training Brazil Training Team of the Year - Americas
• Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) Training Team of the Year - Asia Pacific
• AIS Survivex Training Team of the Year - Europe Africa
• Mira Rope Access, Turkey Training Team of the Year 0-500 WINDA uploads
• Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), Australia Training Team of the Year 501-1500 WINDA uploads
• AIS Survivex, UK Training Team of the Year 1500+ WINDA uploads
• Trophy Winners (Individual)
• Karolina Jastrzębska, of Windhunter Academy sp. z o.o. Young Achiever of the Year
• Claus Rose Achievement Award

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Full list of Finalists

Training Team of the Year - Newcomer

Maersk Training in Humber (Maersk Training in the UK) Category Winner

MTIC by MIRDC Highly Commended

Vestas Highly Commended

TASK ACADEMY - RN

Fire and Safety Australia Pty Ltd

Training Team of the Year - Americas

Maersk Training Brazil Category Winner

TASK ACADEMY - RN Highly Commended

SALVACON SC Highly Commended

TEAM-1 Academy Inc.

TASK ACADEMY – SP

Training Team of the Year - Asia/Pacific  

Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) Category Winner

EDUFORCE INDIA Highly Commended

MTIC by MIRDC Highly Commended

Fire and Safety Australia Pty Ltd

Taiwan International Windpower Training Corporation

Training Team of the Year - Europe/Africa

AIS Survivex Category Winner

RelyOn Nutec Highly Commended

Tesicnor Highly Commended

Trauma & Resuscitation Services LTD

Mira Rope Access

Training Team of the Year (1500+ WINDA uploads)

AIS Survivex Category Winner

RelyOn Nutec Highly Commended

Tesicnor Highly Commended

Maersk Training in the UK

TASK ACADEMY - RN

Training Team of the Year (501-1500 WINDA uploads)

Mira Rope Access Category Winner

EDUFORCE INDIA Highly Commended

SP Wind (Pty) Ltd Highly Commended

Fire and Safety Australia Pty Ltd

Advanced Blade Repair Services

Training Team of the Year (0-500 WINDA uploads)

Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) Category Winner

Trauma & Resuscitation Services LTD Highly Commended

Maersk Training in Humber (Maersk Training in the UK) Highly Commended

MRS Training & Rescue

Maersk Training Brazil

Young Achiever of the Year

Karolina Jastrzębska, windhunter academy sp. z o.o. Category Winner

Emerson Connor, TEAM-1 Academy Inc. Highly Commended

Thomas Yu , Taiwan International Windpower Training Corporation Highly Commended

Andy Scorfield, AIS Survivex

Jan Mahlstedt, RelyOn Nutec

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