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Get Up Safe
What is GUS?
Get Up Safe is a unique heave compensated lifting solution that has been specifically designed to transfer personnel between Crew Transfer Vessels and the main external platform of an offshore wind turbine.
GUS systems are activated and operated from the CTV via a wireless remote control and use integrated sensors to monitor vessel movement and instruct the hoist to take-in or pay-out line to maintain a safe distance between the person being transferred and the vessel deck.
Deployed at scale
The system was fully commercialised in 2019 and has been deployed at scale on four of Orsted’s fixed bottom offshore windfarms; Hornsea 2 in the UK and Southfork, Revolution and Sunrise Wind in the USA. The GUS system is also being deployed on the offshore substation at RWE’s Thor windfarm project in Denmark.
In 2024, the GUS system passed
10,000 safe transfers
at Orsted’s Hornsea 2 windfarm
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The GUS system offers safer access more of the year around and has allowed developers to entirely remove boat landings from foundation design.
How GUS works
Personnel transfers in a far offshore environment is serious business. We’re proud of the innovative features and technologies that we’ve designed and implemented to ensure that personnel will remain safe while using our equipment.
Watch this video for more information on how offshore technicians use GUS systems for transfer from CTV.
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GUS training
Making sure that the operators and users of the system are competent and confident is a critical part of realising the safety and cost benefits that the GUS system has to offer windfarm developers and operators.
To assure the highest quality of delivery, Pict has partnered with leading training organisations, to provide online and practical training in the use of GUS systems to vessel crews and technicians. Partners include Maersk Training and the National Offshore Wind Training Centre (NOWTC).
Testing
Offshore windfarms are enormous energy stations, often far from shore and spread over tens or hundreds of square kilometres. The weather can be extreme; the action of wind, waves and salt is destructive to equipment and impose hardship and risks on the people working there. It is with these challenges in mind that the GUS system has been created.
To devise solutions capable of meeting and exceeding the needs of offshore operations, Pict has developed customised test rigs and procedures to ensure our equipment is up to the job. From CTV simulators that use real world data to replicate the heave motion of vessel decks, to test chambers that can expose sensors to extreme hot and cold temperatures, Pict has the tools to allow it to conduct world class R&D.
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