The Lynn Offshore Wind Farm Order 2003

Active safety management system

11.—(1) The turbines shall be operated in accordance with an active safety management system for the purpose of minimising the risk of vessels colliding with the towers or rotating blades of the turbines and facilitating search and rescue activities.

(2) The details of the active safety management system shall be approved by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, such approval (not to be unreasonably withheld), but the system shall include—

(a) provision for each turbine to be marked by day and night with clearly visible identification systems;

(b) provision for communication procedures between mariners in distress, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the central control room for the operation of the turbines when a vessel is in distress;

(c) subject to the technology being available and it being available to the Company on commercially acceptable terms, provision for the immediate shutting down of one or more of the turbines at the request of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in a position which secures the maximum clearance between the lowest point of the blades and the water level; and

(d) provision for testing the emergency procedures at times and in a manner reasonably required by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.