TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Water Hygiene
The team from Harper Water Management Group.
its extensive experience, evidenced best practice, and supportive risk recognition and management, to prioritise actions and resources, and enable a more efficient and sustainable route to successful outcomes’.
Client training
Client training and witnessed proficiency remains part of Harper Water’s core offering, which aligns to David Harper’s long and successful history of supporting Responsible and Competent Person
development and appointment. A wide variety of courses are available to support disciplines across Water Safety Groups, including City & Guilds-assured and CPD- certified content. Training content focuses not only on traditional key issues, but also on new industry trends and threats to water quality and occupant safety. Recent courses run on Continuous Remote Sensor Monitoring, Implementing ‘water- free’ patient care, and ‘New-build and refurbishment projects’, have attracted engineers, clinical and infection prevention
Despite over 50 years’ experience in engineering problems out of water systems, and with little that the Harper Water Management Group team collectively has not seen or experienced, there are new challenges and more complex threats ahead – problems which require the multi-skills of an interdisciplinary approach
Dr Whapham
Dr Catherine Whapham is a subject matter expert and international speaker on in-premise water hygiene. Following a career in contamination control, initially with blood products, before transferring approximately 18 years ago to water, she joined the team at Harper Water Management Group as an independent water hygiene consultant in 2021. Her focus is on water quality and user behaviours at the periphery of the plumbed system. Risk recognition, adopting best practice, implementing change, and managing water quality with reduced resources, are areas where Cathy is best known. Increasingly her experience is being harnessed to develop unique training content and deliver thought-provoking courses under the Harper Water badge.
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teams, and Capital Projects personnel. These topics allow a collaborative approach to support and drive change with the ultimate aim of placing patient safety as the priority.
Dr Whapham said: “We all have some distance to go before getting in-premise water quality and user behaviours consistently under control. Despite over 50 years’ experience in engineering problems out of water systems, and with little that the Harper Water Management Group team collectively has not seen or experienced, there are new challenges and more complex threats ahead – problems which require the multi-skills of an interdisciplinary approach. Microorganisms have had four billion years to hone their skills in adapting to every environment on earth, and antimicrobial resistance is no longer on the horizon, but at our door – or rather in our drains. May we all rise to, and recognise, the water and wastewater safety challenges of the future. Contact us at
https://www.harperwater.com/contact-us/ if you have any water and wastewater concerns that need multidisciplinary input.”
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