Water Safety Plan Training Package

WSPs are a risk-based approach to most effectively protect drinking-water safety. WHO’s 4th edition of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality (WHO, 2011) explicitly states the importance of WSPs, and the Bonn Charter (IWA, 2004) advocates the use of WSPs as the best way of ensuring good, safe drinking-water.

WSPs are now being adopted worldwide, but they are not always fully understood by all stakeholders. There are a number of key terms and concepts that are not always translated appropriately or are simply misunderstood. Face-to-face training is therefore considered to be an essential component of globally successful WSP implementation.

The WSP Training package

The training is structured around 13 learning modules. The first module (Introduction) gives an overview of WSPs. The last module (Module 12) introduces participants to the quality assurance tool for WSPs (WHO & IWA, 2012). Modules 1–11 relate explicitly to the WSP manual produced by IWA and WHO (Bartram et al.,2009), from which the workshop is designed. 

The training package consists of three components, a facilitator handbook, a participant workbook and accompanying PowerPoint presentations.

Who should use the WSP Training package?

The package is designed to be used by professional and non-professional trainers, who should have prior knowledge and understanding of WSPs, and who are facilitating WSP training based on the WSP manual of the International Water Association (IWA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) (Bartram et al., 2009). The training is targeted at all professionals involved in the management of drinking-water safety.   

Adaptation of Material is required

This material is not intended to be an off the shelf training package, but needs to be adapted to suit local needs (considering the national/regional drinking-water quality context, the attendees, the resources, time available to conduct the training, etc.). The training material should be updated to include national or regional examples (or case-studies) and to suit local interest (e.g.
benefits could be different in different regions). Please refer to Part 3 of the handbook for further details.  

Download the Handbook, Workbook and Powerpoint presentations

• Handbook [1.3 MB in size]
• Participant workbook [894 KB in size]
• Powerpoint module 0
• Powerpoint module 1
• Powerpoint module 2
• Powerpoint module 3
• Powerpoint module 4
• Powerpoint module 5
• Powerpoint module 6
• Powerpoint module 7
• Powerpoint module 8
• Powerpoint module 9
• Powerpoint module 10
• Powerpoint module 11
• Powerpoint module 12
• Powerpoint - Spot the hazards

Contact Information and feedback

Please contact us with any questions or comments at: wsportal@iwahq.org.  We will try to answer any questions as soon as possible.