GWO Training Courses

Public provider information checked on 21 October 2026. The following Novikontas fees are advertised in EUR per person for the named full initial BST packages. They are provider-advertised fees for these packages.

The onshore package contains First Aid, Manual Handling, Fire Awareness and Working at Height; the offshore package adds Sea Survival including boat transfer. Novikontas lists four training-centre days for initial onshore BST and five for offshore BST. Its digital option combines e-learning with practice at the training centre, listed as two working days onshore or three offshore. Ask how much time to allow for e-learning before attending.

Other packages have separate prices. The full offshore BST refresher is advertised as three days at €500 per person in Klaipėda or €575 in Riga. Ask Novikontas to check your WINDA record and refresher eligibility. For BTT combined three modules (Mechanical, Electrical and Hydraulic), the advertised training-centre fee is €1,000 in either city; blended learning is €600 in Klaipėda or €800 in Riga. This is a three-module package, not every BTT module. Other courses and individual modules need their own quotation.

The inspected course pages do not specify VAT treatment, the language for each intake or a complete list of price inclusions. Confirm the final total, training and assessment language, assessment and WINDA administration, equipment and materials, and any extra meal, travel or accommodation costs. Ask the provider how competence is assessed and what happens if you do not meet the required standard.

1. Check the modules required by your employer, and whether you need initial or refresher training. Prepare your WINDA ID and ask Novikontas to check entry requirements.
2. Check the provider calendar and confirm dates, city, available place, delivery format and language directly with Novikontas.
3. Send your course request through the Novikontas registration page. Confirm the total price, inclusions, assessment, payment and cancellation or rescheduling conditions before paying or arranging travel.

Gridinta provides information and the referral; Novikontas accepts and confirms the booking.

On 18 October 2026, the Novikontas GWO catalogue listed these course groups:

• GWO Basic Safety Training (BST) Full Onshore: Working at Height including R-ALF, First Aid, Manual Handling and Fire Awareness. Four days at the training centre, or two working days with digital delivery (e-learning plus practice at the centre).
• GWO BST Full Offshore: the four onshore modules plus Sea Survival including boat transfer. Five days at the centre, or three working days with digital delivery.
• Single BST modules and refreshers: each Basic Safety module can be booked separately, and Basic Safety Refresher (BSTR) courses are listed for single modules and for full onshore and offshore packages.
• GWO Basic Technical Training (BTT): Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic, Bolt Tightening and Installation modules, also offered as combined three-, four- and five-module courses.
• GWO Advanced Rescue Training (ART): Hub rescue, Nacelle rescue or both combined, with matching refresher courses.
• GWO Blade Repair: a nine-day course for composite inspection and repair work.
• Other GWO courses: Enhanced First Aid, Slinger Signaller, Service Lift User and Wind Limited Access.

Klaipėda and Riga both appear as locations on the Novikontas Basic Safety, Basic Technical, Advanced Rescue and Blade Repair course pages. Formats, durations and locations can change, so check the course page for your chosen dates.

Only in part. GWO's Requirements for Training (version 15, 1 April 2025) list digital learning as one of four training settings, alongside fixed facilities, mobile facilities and on-site training. A provider certified for fixed or mobile facilities may use digital learning for training elements in the knowledge domain, such as theory lessons, without a separate audit (clause 7.2.12). Using digital technology for elements in the skills or abilities domain requires an audit and certification for the digital setting (clause 7.2.13).

Practical training remains practical. The Basic Safety Training standard lets providers use other timetables only if practical elements are not reduced in length, and participants are assessed against the learning objectives by direct observation (Requirements for Training, clause 9.4.1). In 2021, GWO withdrew a training provider's certification after it delivered full BST and BST refresher courses fully online with no practical exercises, and revoked the WINDA records it had uploaded that year.

A blended course therefore combines e-learning with practical training at a centre. Novikontas describes its digital BST delivery this way: e-learning plus two working days at the training centre for onshore BST, or three for offshore. In either format, the provider uploads the training record to WINDA no later than seven calendar days after the module is completed (clause 6.2.1). A printout of the record is not valid as a certificate, according to GWO's WINDA guidance for participants.

Basic Technical Training (BTT), version 11, includes Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic, Bolt Tightening, Installation Mechanical, Installation Electrical and Hazardous Energies Basic Safety modules. GWO allows the modules to be delivered separately or combined.

Advanced Rescue Training (ART), version 6, covers Hub, Spinner and Inside Blade Rescue and Nacelle, Tower and Basement Rescue, each with initial and refresher training. Novikontas lists valid WINDA records for BST Working at Height, First Aid and Manual Handling as entry requirements for its ART course.

Blade Repair, version 6, covers inspection, documentation and repair of glass-fibre composite parts within defined limits: laminate repairs affecting up to five layers (maximum 500 cm²), core material replacement up to 200 cm², and surface repair to paint and gelcoat. Repair work on a real turbine is carried out to the manufacturer's or client's repair specification.

The blade repair technician career path explains how GWO, IRATA and experience combine.

After a completed course, the training provider uploads the training record to WINDA, the GWO training record database. Novikontas states that each participant needs a WINDA ID, which is obtained by registering on the WINDA website.

Novikontas lists these validity periods on its course pages:

• Basic Safety Training: two years
• Advanced Rescue Training: two years
• Basic Technical Training: unlimited
• Blade Repair: unlimited

Modules with a limited validity are renewed through refresher training before the existing record expires. WINDA notifies record owners by email when a record is about to expire. For BST, an expired module record means taking the applicable initial module again; refresher entry requires a valid WINDA record. See BST V20, sections 5.5 and 5.7. For other standards, ask Novikontas to check the module-specific entry rules.

On 10 March 2026, GWO published updated versions of eight training standards: Basic Safety Training, Advanced Rescue Training, Enhanced First Aid, Wind Limited Access, Control of Hazardous Energies, Basic Technical Training, Blade Repair and Instructor Qualification Training.

• Refresher training for Basic Safety, Advanced Rescue, Enhanced First Aid and Control of Hazardous Energies is now published in the same standard as the initial training.
• The combined Working at Height and Manual Handling module was removed from Basic Safety Training, and a Walk-to-Work lesson on motion-compensated gangways was added.
• Basic safety content from Control of Hazardous Energies moved into BTT as the Hazardous Energies Basic Safety module.

A six-month grace period for the changes ended on 10 September 2026. After that date, GWO removed the previous refresher standard versions from its website. Ask the training provider which standard version a course follows.

Gridinta's current wind turbine technician vacancy lists a GWO certificate among its requirements. Course completion does not guarantee a job offer, and each employer sets its own requirements for experience, trade qualifications and medical fitness.

Our guide on becoming a wind turbine technician sets out the usual route.

GWO and IRATA are separate schemes: GWO covers selected wind-industry safety and technical training, while IRATA certifies rope access technicians across sectors. Read about IRATA courses in Klaipėda and Riga with the same partner, or the guide to GWO certification in wind energy. Gridinta's turbine work is described under onshore wind turbine maintenance.

The course list, locations and certificate validity periods below were checked on Novikontas course pages, and the GWO standard details on globalwindsafety.org, on 18 October 2026; the GWO digital learning requirements were checked on 25 October 2026. Course pages and standards can change; the provider's current information takes precedence.

• GWO: Standard updates effective 10 March 2026
• GWO: six-month grace period ends 10 September 2026 (published 2 September 2026)
• GWO Basic Safety Training Standard (V20, 10 March 2026)
• GWO Basic Technical Training Standard (V11, 10 March 2026)
• GWO Advanced Rescue Training Standard (V6, 10 March 2026)
• GWO Blade Repair Training Standard (V6, 10 March 2026)
• GWO: Requirements for Training (V15, 1 April 2025)
• GWO: training provider's certification withdrawn (7 July 2021)
• GWO: WINDA for participants
• Novikontas: GWO course catalogue
• Novikontas: GWO BST Initial Full Onshore
• Novikontas: GWO BST Initial Full Offshore
• Novikontas: GWO BTT combined modules
• Novikontas: GWO ART Nacelle and Hub
• Novikontas: GWO Blade Repair Training