The Clean Energy Workforce Readiness Playbook
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MOVING BEYOND TRADITIONAL APPROACHES
3 Proven Strategies for Strengthening Clean Energy Workforce Readiness
With clean energy job demand surging over the last years and workforce experience declining, ensuring workers are fully prepared is more critical than ever. Clean energy leaders recognize that technical training alone isn’t enough — workforce readiness must be a top priority.
By strengthening the physical, mental, and job-specific readiness of frontline employees, these organizations are not only reducing injuries but also boosting retention, improving performance, and ensuring teams are equipped to meet growing industry demands.
Building Physical Resilience
The Challenge: Real-World Scenario
The North American region of a wind company specializing in turbine manufacturing & maintenance was facing:
- High rates of soft tissue injuries and persistent pain among workers
- Documented link between pain, fatigue, poor fueling, and impaired hazard recognition impacting worker safety and efficiency
Their Approach
To combat these challenges, safety and operations leaders transformed their strategy by:
- Upgrading their existing "stretch and flex" with rotating science-backed movement routines integrated into morning huddles, pre-job briefings, & team meetings
- Incorporating regular, practical education on hydration, nutrition, and recovery into safety meetings to improve worker cognitive sharpness
Resources They Used:
Movement Routine Poster
Print version of the full-body warm-up with coaching cues
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The Results
Reduction in participants classified as high-risk for injury
Enhancing Mental Readiness
The Challenge: Real-World Scenario
A large-scale utility company with solar operations across multiple states faced key challenges in delivering safety information effectively:
- Ensuring timely, just-in-time safety content reached workers at critical task moments
- Meeting the diverse learning preferences and work environments of frontline employees, making it difficult to distribute relevant safety messaging
Their Approach
To bridge these gaps, safety leaders collaborated with site leads to implement a strategy focused on:
- Multi-format safety content (video, imagery, print, etc.) distributed through tailboard meetings and other existing communication channels
- Utilizing targeted, short-form safety messaging aligned with specific job task risks and seasonal and geographic hazards
Resources They Used:
Slip, Trip, Fall Prevention
Practical strategies to enhance awareness and maintain stability on the job
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Printable Guide
A print reference for reinforcing slip, trip, and fall prevention strategies for analog learners
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Supporting Job-Specific Preparedness
The Challenge: Real-World Scenario
A renewable energy company with wind and solar operations across multiple states faced:
- A diverse workforce performing specialized tasks in renewables construction, maintenance, and grid operations, requiring job-specific safety training
- A growing skills gap with newer employees needing targeted, real-world training to work safely and efficiently.
Their Approach
To enhance workforce preparedness, safety leaders prioritized real-world, job-relevant training by:
- Partnering with Vimocity to produce job-specific training materials featuring real workers in real work environments facing real on-the-job conditions
- Utilizing practical short-form guides in pre-job briefings to help workers mitigate unique job risks encountered in daily operations
Resources They Used:
Climbing a Wind Turbine Ladder
Job-specific video guide on strongest body positioning and approach to this task
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Printable Guide
An analog guide on quick key takeaways for performing this task safely that can be utilized in tailboard meetings prior to the task
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