Posted By Jonathan Breeze
Assuming you are referring to the general public, this has been raised on the forum before and can be found at the following address:

http://www.iosh.co.uk/in...m=1&thread=5519&page=401

There is also anecdotal evidence from the Iberian peninsula of injuries caused by people tilting at windmills.

If you are referring to construction & maintenance work by employees/ contractors, then the usual issues of work relatied safety will apply (working at height, moving machinery, entrapment, electrocution etc.) and these would be controlled by the usual heirarchy of protection measures.

Balanced against this is the fact that wind power has been harnessed by humans for millennia across the world (milling, land drainage, transportation etc.) without any major reported adverse health & safety effects.

It is a lot less atmospherically polluting form of energy generation than fossil fuel or nuclear power stations and that is generally considered 'a good thing'.

Best of luck on what I can only describe as a Quixotic quest.

Posted By Ken Taylor
They're even taller than juggernauts, Michael, but I do take your point and support the sentiment. Whilst the question is about health and safety issues, the point about environmental assessment is well made. They manufacture these here on the Isle of Wight but, to date, have not installed any on the Island. There is a proposal to put them on top of the downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which is being strongly opposed by a local action group for environmental reasons (including noise, visual impact and disturbance to wildlife in an area visited extensively by tourists, ramblers, bird-watchers, etc). They argue for wave power as being a more environmentally friendly and reliable alternative as the wind can vary from 0 to 100mph whereas the sea is always on the move and there's a lot of it close at hand.