Professional Solar Panel Installation Starts with Professional Safety Awareness
Prevent accidents and reputational damage with Working at Height training
As a solar industry professional, are you fully aware of the risks associated with working at height? Unfortunately, these risks are often underestimated, and safety measures are frequently insufficient. By ensuring your employees receive professional training, you can significantly reduce fall hazards, prevent serious accidents, and demonstrably meet your duty of care obligations.
The importance of fall protection in the solar industry is reflected in the statistics. In 2023, the Dutch Labour Inspectorate reported 40 workplace accidents within an eighteen-month period. Between 2020 and 2023, six fatal accidents occurred. Inspections also revealed that more than 70% of installers were in violation of occupational health and safety regulations. As a result, the Netherlands Labour Authority (NLA) actively monitors safe working at height practices during solar panel installations, including the correct use of fall protection systems.
One Accident Can Disrupt Everything
Every accident is one too many. And a single incident can have far-reaching consequences. In addition to the personal impact on those involved, your company may face negative publicity, reputational damage, fines, investigations by the Labour Inspectorate, and potential liability claims. The result can be significant disruption to your operations and business continuity.
Solar Industry Training: Demonstrate Your Duty of Care
Naturally, you want to avoid these risks. That starts with understanding the hazards and maintaining a continuous focus on safety. By providing professional training for your organisation and employees, you can clearly demonstrate compliance with your duty of care obligations.
More importantly, you take a significant step toward creating a safer working environment for your workforce. Training records can also support your Risk Inventory and Evaluation (RI&E), helping to strengthen your overall safety management system.
What do you learn during this training?
In our Solar Industry Working at Height Training, your installers learn how to work safely at height while installing and/or inspecting solar panels. Training takes place in a realistic environment at our Safe Site Expertise Centre in Vlaardingen, where real-life work situations are carefully simulated.
Using our fully equipped training roofs—both a pitched roof and a flat roof—participants gain hands-on experience with the risks involved in installing actual solar panels. At the same time, they become familiar with the correct use of mandatory fall protection equipment and safe working procedures.
This practical approach ensures that participants not only understand the theory behind working safely at height but also develop the confidence and skills required to apply it effectively on site.
Overview
- Course: Working on roofs in the solar industry
- Course duration: 8 hours
- Number of participants: Maximum of 8 per group
- Location: Safe Site Expertise Centre (can also be held at your own premises)
- Prerequisites: None
- Validity: 3 years
Target audience
Employees who:
- regularly carry out work at height on pitched and flat roofs when installing and/or maintaining solar panels
- use various fall protection equipment
- use a cherry picker, mobile scaffold or portable ladders whilst carrying out work
Programme
- Legislation and regulations regarding working safely at height in the solar industry
- Awareness of fall hazards and the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Visual user inspection of various fall protection equipment
- Safe use of mobile scaffolding and portable ladders
- Safe use of various PPE
- Various practical scenarios on pitched and flat roofs (specifically focused on the installation and maintenance of solar panels)
The training is delivered by our experienced trainers. A bespoke training course is, of course, also available. Would you prefer the training to be held on-site? Then we will bring the training to you.
We are here to help
Do you have any questions about our training? Or would you like the equipment for working safely at height delivered to your company? Please feel free to contact us at training@mennens.nl or call +31(0)10 4373033.
