In this The Press and Journal article, WSG members Kevin Clancy, Partner and Killian Dockrell, Solicitor at Shepherd Wedderburn discuss the increasing health and safety risks associated with offshore wind development driven by larger projects, greater technical complexity and operations in increasingly remote and challenging environments. They highlight how hazardous access, constrained evacuation routes, and human factor risks are intensifying as the sector scales. As these issues align with incident trends reported across offshore wind markets internationally, they emphasize for legal practitioners, the importance of occupational safety frameworks, consistent cross-border standards and clearly defined contractual allocation of health and safety responsibilities across the offshore wind value chain.
