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Water Hygiene: Requirements, Legislation and Regulation
Summary
Within the water industry water hygiene is of overriding importance. Our key job as a water supplier is to provide clean safe drinking water to our customers. This means we must both understand what is clean, how best to ensure our water is not only safe and of the highest quality but that the water and our procedures satisfy all current legislation and guidance.
In providing the water hygiene training course we are also able to offer the benefits of this background and understanding to thers who work with drinking water.
Who needs to consider Water Hygiene?
The quality of water in our local environment affects us all and the new guidance recognises this.
Anybody working with water should be suitably qualified. This includes everybody from the domestic plumber through to the water engineer who is installing water mains.
It is vital that anybody working with drinking water undertakes a water hygiene course leading to the holding of a card. Remember, this includes people working in the bottled water and drinks industry.
Trades people should also seriously consider ensuring they have a Water Hygiene card if they work in the following areas (this is not an exhaustive list):
- Plumbing
- Drains and Sewers
- Central Heating and hot water
- Solar Water Heating
- Air Conditioning
- Swimming pools
- Tankered Water
- Bottled Water
Why Should I favour a tradesman with a water hygiene certification?
The majority of trades people are experienced and professional in the way they work with the public and businesses, however a bit of additional training and advice always helps. Where a card holder should have an advantage is:
Their understanding of the separation between water types such as drinking water, grey and green water and sewer water and the need to take certain hygiene precautions between working on these water types.
They will understand personal, tool, clothing and storage requirements associated with best practice water hygiene.
They will have established that they do not have any underlying health problem that should preclude them from working on drinking water.
They have gone the extra step to reassure you that they are looking after your interests.
Having had water hygiene training you can be sure that your plumber hasn't come directly from a challenging sewer job to work on your drinking water supply.
Legislation and Guidance associated with Water Quality
