Authorised Person Water
5-Day Classroom Course – £1097
Venue: Hydro-X Training HQ
Price includes City & Guilds Certification
Authorised Person Water
5-Day Classroom Course – £1097
Venue: Hydro-X Training HQ
Price includes City & Guilds Certification
Authorised Person: Water Training Overview
This course will cover the required relevant learning objectives for staff to comply with:
- HTM 04-01 Policies and Principles of Healthcare Engineering
- SHTM 04-01 Water Safety for Healthcare Premises Part G
Who is our Authorised Person: Water Training suitable for?
This course is for authorised competent estates staff, managers and contractors involved in the safe management of hot and cold-water supply, storage and distribution systems.
Course Information
- Legislative/local governance and relative regulations applicable to their healthcare estate
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Never events
- Governance and management responsibility
- Safe working practices and processes
- Water safety group
- Water safety plan
- Risk assessment, identification of statutory and non-statutory requirements
- Written control scheme
- Emergency planning
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Legionella Bacteria (Species)
- Stenotrophomonas
- Mycobacterium Chimera
- Clinical consequences of patient and staff infection
- Appointment of an AP
- Role within Water Safety Group
- Adequate and documented training of personnel employed in the design, operation and maintenance of engineering services (including maintenance personnel and contractors)
- Implementation of relevant risk assessments surveys
- Manage and implement risk assessment recommendations
- Provide a safe hot and cold water supply systems (including cooling systems, humidification, rainwater recovery systems, private water supplies)
- Establish and audit appropriate of methods of collating monitoring records
- Establishing a robust method of recognising and acting on non-compliant data (including responses to noncompliant microbial sampling data)
- Actions and safe systems required to respond to emergency situations
- Managing temporary closures of wards and sections of contaminated water supply systems
- Ensuring hydrotherapy pools and spa pools are maintained and monitored in accordance with legislation and guidance
- Maintain a compliant building management system and building energy maintenance system
- Disinfection of appropriate equipment and systems
- Collaboration with the WSG and infection control in microbial monitoring of water systems
- Compliance of legislation and Regulations for water distribution systems (HTM 04-01)
- Learn about the different waterborne pathogens, along with their transmission routes around the buildings water systems and equipment
- Other water safety issues in a distribution system including physical and chemical contamination
- Methods of preventing contamination and cross-contamination within healthcare premises
- Responsibilities of different personnel to prevent contamination within the buildings
- Sampling requirements and methods to ensure accurate results, including interpreting the results and remedial actions
- Risk assessments and the importance of getting a suitable and sufficient one completed by an authorised person
- Logbook records and auditing processes
- Looking at the role of the Water Safety Group and the Water safety Plan within health care premises
At the end of the training each delegate undertakes a multiple choice assessment consisting of 20 questions, with 15 correct answers achieving a pass grade (75%).
Where facilities permit, assessment is completed online to enable faster processing of results and certification.
On successful completion of this Authorised Person: Water Training, you will receive a City and Guilds Accredited Programme Certificate.
A digital certificate will be made available for you to download normally within 48hrs of successfully completing this course.
Paper copies of certificates can be supplied subject to a small administration fee.
This will need renewing every 2 years.
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Product SKU: HXT-F04
Product Brand: Hydro-X Training
Product Currency: GBP
Product Price: 200
Product In-Stock: InStock
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