National Water Hygiene Scheme (NWH)
Course, delivered as In-centre or Virtual training, for all persons who come in to contact with potable water. Any person working on service reservoirs, pumping stations, treatment works, wells, spring and boreholes and working on the network of water mains and service pipes must be in possession of a National Water Hygiene card.
½ day course
Benefits for the learner
- Compliance with industry standards.
- Issue of the blue National Water Hygiene card for successful learners, lasting three years.
Benefits for the employer
- Compliance with Water UK standards.
What you’ll learn on this course
Module 1: The importance of water
Asks individuals to reflect on the definition of wholesome water, drawing attention to its importance as a food source and the implications of a world without clean water. It aims to provide the individual with an understanding of the scarcity of clean water and the role that water plays in maintaining a healthy and functioning society.
Module 2: Water as a carrier of disease
Aims to develop an individual's understanding of how water can be a carrier of disease; exploring the historic cases which established a better understanding of waterborne disease and developing best practice, looking at the various illnesses that can be contracted through the ingestion of contaminated water and the diseases that still prove challenging today.
Module 3: Potential contamination and its consequences
Explores the potential sources of water contamination across all areas of the UK water industry and the consequences should contamination occur.
Module 4: Preventing contamination
Explores the steps that an individual can take to prevent contamination of the clean water supply. Broader and overarching actions that the individual can take to safeguard water quality as well as providing specific examples of working practices that can be adopted in a small number of high-risk scenarios.
What do I need to bring with Me?
- Learners should bring a passport style photograph.
How is the training delivered?
- In-centre or Virtual training
- In-centre: Training is classroom based with a written test paper.
- Virtual: Training is delivered in a virtual classroom (Microsoft Teams or Zoom) with an online test paper.
- A standardised health screening questionnaire is completed. If this suggests an individual may be carrying a water borne disease the learner may be referred to their doctor or occupational health department for checks before they can be registered for the National Water Hygiene card. A card will not be issued until both the health screening and the test have been passed.
- Successful learners will be registered to receive the blue EUSR registered water hygiene scheme card.
- On completion of the course learners will be sent a virtual EUSR card to their mobile phones. Therefore a mobile phone number must be provided on the day. Hard copy cards, if required, must be requested prior to course delivery and will incur additional fees.
October 2020 - Alex White
flexibility of lecturer on breaks and stopping points
January 2020 - Jamie Daldry
The whole day and tutor he made you feel welcome he envolved everyone he went extra mile remember ur name and had the effort to ask about jobs and why we there he didn’t make it boring it was good
November 2019 - Tom Jennings
The trainer, Phil Frost, made the course fun and got every point across very well he also made sure everyone on the course understood everything before he moved on to the next point. Top trainer.
October 2019 - John Downie
September 2019 - Simon Storer
light hearted but serious course
July 2019 - Wayne Spiers
September 2018 - Richard Gough
Good course and good instructor, friendly and knowledgeable.
June 2018 - Peter John Chilton
A good course, delivered well by a knowledgeable instructor. Air con in the class room recommended.
May 2018 - Paul Mansfield
The plastic chairs in the training room could be better
Locations & Dates
Types of Courses
Part 1 - Virtual training
Delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams / Zoom.