NPORS Wind Turbine Lifting Operations Training (N051)

We confirm it when we quote. The NPORS test sheet does not carry a standard duration and maximum test numbers for this category the way it does for most, so the honest answer is that the length follows the experience in the room and how many people are on it. NPORS themselves publish this category as a programme that can be delivered in more than one length, including a shorter refresher for people already doing the work.

Because this category was written for the wind industry rather than for a standard construction machine, and it is delivered against the way a particular operator works. We would rather tell you that than publish a number we cannot stand behind.

Yes. NPORS describe it as covering technicians involved in lifting operations in wind turbine environments both onshore and offshore. The practical is shaped around which of the two your crew works in.

No. The N402 Slinger Signaller is the general category for attaching loads to a crane hook and directing the operator, and it is what a construction site will ask for. The N051 is specific to lifting in and around turbines: tower hoists, confined space, blind vertical lifts and designed anchor points. Plenty of wind technicians end up holding both.

If you are working offshore, almost certainly, but that is a separate matter set by your employer and the site operator. Medicals, sea survival and vessel transfer requirements sit outside this NPORS category and this course does not cover them.

An NPORS card in the N051 Wind Turbine Lifting Operations category. It carries the CSCS logo where you also hold a CITB Health, Safety and Environment test pass taken within the last two years, which matters if your people also go onto construction sites. For offshore and operational wind farm work a traditional NPORS card without the logo is often the better fit.

Yes, and it is usually the better way. A lifting crew that has trained together uses the same language for signals, exclusion zones and lift plans, and that is most of what makes a blind lift up a tower safe. Tell us the numbers at enquiry and we will size it properly.

Yes. There are no scheduled dates for any of our NPORS courses. We come to your site or training base, or arrange a venue near you, and run it when your crews can be released.

NPORS courses are priced per course, not per person. What you are paying for is the instructor, the registered tester and the machine time, so the figure turns on four things: the category, which route your operators need (novice, experienced, conversion or refresher), how many people are coming, and whether we run it on your site or at one of ours. It is also why a squad works out considerably cheaper per head than sending operators out one at a time. Use the course builder on this page: tell it who is coming and it works out how many days the course takes and how many times it has to run, which is what the price is built from. Then ask us and you will get a figure for that exact group rather than a list price with conditions attached.

We run NPORS courses across the UK rather than out of one fixed centre, and for most categories the better answer is that we come to you: your operators are assessed on the machine they will be using anyway, nobody loses a day travelling, and for a group it costs less. If you would rather come to us, we have centres at Trent House in Stoke, Pride Park in Derby, Europa House in Manchester and Kingsway House in Liverpool. Tell us where the work is and we will say honestly which way round makes more sense.

There is no fixed timetable to wait for. NPORS courses here are run to order, which means the dates are built around your programme rather than ours, and a single operator or a full squad can normally be booked in within a couple of weeks. If you have a card about to expire or a start date to hit, say so when you enquire and we will work to it.