National Water Hygiene (EUSR) Training
About Our National Water Hygiene Training Courses
Our National Water Hygiene (‘Blue Card’) scheme plays a vital part in ensuring the protection of public health and promoting good water hygiene practices.
The scheme has been developed in collaboration with all UK water companies.
All UK water companies require individuals entering clean water sites or working on the clean water network – known as ‘Restricted Operations’, to hold a National Water Hygiene EUSR registration. ‘Restricted Operations’ includes working on service reservoirs, water pumping stations, water treatment works, wells, springs, boreholes as well as working on the network of water mains and service pipes.
It’s not just water company employees
If you are working on a ‘Restricted Operation’ on behalf of a water company subcontractor or other organisation, such as Self-Lay Organisation (SLOs) – then you need a National Water Hygiene EUSR registration.
Once you have successfully completed your National Water Hygiene training and assessment, you will understand the vital part you play in maintaining clean and safe drinking water and protecting public health. All new and renewal National Water Hygiene EUSR registrations are issued with a virtual card instead of the previous plastic card (also known as the ‘Blue Card’).
Virtual cards mean you can never forget or lose your card and are easily accessible on any smartphone, tablet or iPad using the Vircarda app.
Quality Assured Routes to Registration
There are 2 routes to registration for National Water Hygiene that we provide:
Face-to-face training
Remote/e-Classroom training
The two options are delivered by an approved trainer either in person (face-to-face training)
Any Trainer delivering National Water Hygiene must be approved by EUSR and have appropriate and recent water industry experience and competence – as well as training or assessment qualifications and experience.
EUSR ongoing quality assurance, through monitoring and audits, ensures high quality training and a very positive learning experience.
EUSR Registration
Completing a National Water Hygiene training programme and assessment results in an EUSR registration for three years
.EUSR is the energy and utilities sector register for skills, training – and sometimes authorisations and qualifications.
Available online 24/7, it is used by employers, and individuals, to verify skills and training.
Registration on EUSR reduces duplication of training for those who work at more than one location – saving you and your employers, time and money.
Health Screening
A health screening questionnaire must be completed by all individuals prior to the training and assessment. In this questionnaire, you must declare whether you have, or have had in the preceding 12 months, any of these illnesses:
- Typhoid
- Paratyphoid
- Dysentery
- Persistent diarrhoea or vomiting
- Jaundice or Hepatitis (A or E)
- Prolonged unexplained fever
If you have, or have had, any of these illnesses, then you must get written confirmation from a medical practitioner, for example your GP, that you are illness and symptom free before you can be registered for National Water Hygiene on EUSR.
Re-Registration on EUSR
When your National Water Hygiene (“Blue Card”) EUSR registration has expired, you will need to renew it by re-taking the training and assessment within 3 years from the start date, face-to-face or e-Classroom & e-Assessment.
Course Modules
Module 1: The importance of water
Module 2: Water as a carrier of disease
Module 3: Potential contamination and its consequences
Module 4: Preventing contamination
Delivery Models
2023 NWH (Face-to -face) training
2023 NWH (Remote/e-Classroom) training
Assessment
All NWH training is assessed through a multiple choice question test. The test contains 25 questions.
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