Awards celebrating offshore wind industry achievement to be announced on Nov. 17th
BUZZARDS BAY, MA, HOUMA, LOUISIANA …Massachusetts Maritime Academy , a top-ranked public university with undergraduate degree programs focusing on science, engineering, technology, math, and business that blend academics and experiential learning today announced that it, in partnership with RelyOn Nutec (www.relyonnutec.com), has been named a finalist for a 2022 Ventus Award by The Business Network for Offshore Wind.
The Ventus Awards represent the offshore wind industry’s highest level of professional recognition, celebrating the cutting-edge innovations and the trailblazing people, companies, and organizations ushering in a new era for offshore wind energy.
MMA and RelyOn Nutec are named joint finalists in the Health, Safety & Environment Program of the Year category for their Global Wind Organisation (GWO) Basic Safety Training (BST) program, in place at the Academy since November 2019. In less than three years some 200 participants have successfully completed training, including 82 members of the District Council of New England Ironworkers.
The finalists and winner of the 2022 Ventus Awards will be recognized as part of the Ventus Gala on November 17th in Washington, D.C. during which hundreds of professionals across the global offshore wind supply chain will come together to celebrate the industry’s collective accomplishments.
“It is gratifying to be among the global organizations recognized by the Business Network for Offshore Wind,” said Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald, USMS, president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. “We are proud of the partnership we have fostered with RelyOn Nutec, one that has and will continue to enable us to provide vital basic safety training to mariners, and those in other industries, as well.”
“We are honored to be a finalist in this year’s Ventus Awards for HSE Program of the Year,” said Jenni Lewis, RelyOn Nutec Managing Director, US, Mexico & Caribbean. “We pride ourselves in bringing new, innovative technologies to training while adapting it to each learner; we are fortunate to have partners like Massachusetts Maritime Academy that apply it at their campus.”