Revision of Water Safety Plan Following Incidents: Overview, Actions, and Challenges
This module focuses on the essential steps for revising Water Safety Plans (WSP) following incidents or near-misses. It provides an overview of actions to assess responses to emergencies, identifies major water quality issues, and encourages open appraisal of the causes behind incidents. The training emphasizes learning from experiences without assigning blame and updating WSPs to integrate lessons learned. Participants will engage in group exercises to apply knowledge by modifying existing WSPs based on case studies and suggesting improvements for future responses.
Revision of Water Safety Plan Following Incidents: Overview, Actions, and Challenges
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Module 11WSP revision following incident • Session structure • Overview • Actions • Definition • Challenges • Outputs • Exercises
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Overview
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Actions • Review • after emergency, unforeseen event, incident or near-miss • regardless of whether new hazardous events or hazards were identified • to reduce the likelihood of recurrence • to determine if response was the best possible
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Definition • Incident • Major water quality problems or threat to water quality • Violation of water quality that poses an acute or immediate threat to public health • Near-miss • Not an incident, but rather evidence that an incident may have occurred if it were not for some action/control • Symptomatic of something more serious, good for learning and correcting
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Challenges • Open and honest appraisal • Identifying cause / chain of events • Focusing action on lessons learnt and not assigning blame It was you!
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Outputs • Comprehensive and transparent review of incident, emergency or near-miss • Updated WSP to incorporate lessons learnt
Module 11WSP revision following incident Plan & carry out periodic WSP review (Module 10) Revise WSP following incident (Module 11) Planned scheduled review for changes in catchment, procedures, staff changes, contact details Review WSP after incident , emergency or near-miss. Was response correct? How could future responses be improved?
Module 11WSP revision following incident • Exercise • In small groups • 35 minutes • Modify existing WSP based on case-study information • Suggest future treatment investment
