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bagged for disposal. Reusable equipment should be cleaned with soapy water or high alcohol content cleanser.
Equipment Cleaning
Hard surfaces within vehicles such as the steering wheel, door handles, handbrake, etc., should be wiped down regularly.
Potentially contaminated equipment should be cleaned on completion of each job.
Risk Removal
Risk assessment involves noting all the potential risks and then trying to remove the risk or reduce the risk to reduce the hazard associated with each risk. In all cases the best method of removing a hazard is to remove the
risk. This means that non-essential drainage works should not be carried out. Essential drainage works, which should only include emergency blockage clearance include risks that cannot be removed. Because of this it is imperative that these risks are removed by awareness, education, correct procedures, personal protective equipment (PPE) and dynamic assessment.
Customers Risks
Drainage workers are likely to be moving from house to house and unless the correct precautions are taken there is a strong potential for spread of the virus, either by direct contact with the customer or with indirect FMT.
It is important that contact with the customer is removed or severely reduced. This includes when dealing with paperwork or payment.
Fuel Stations
These areas, by their nature, are hubs for many people. Contamination routes are via the pump handles, door handles and other people have higher potential. Be aware of this and make appropriate adjustments by washing hands before and after filling up.
Personal Symptoms
If you have any symptoms you should immediately self-isolate as per government recommendations and report to warn your company.
VWT UK appoints new Business Director for Technology Projects
Veolia Water Technologies (VWT UK) has recently appointed a new Business Director – Technology Projects, Peter Brewer, to oversee all of its current UK projects and to unify its Municipal and Industrial project teams. This will allow expertise and solutions to be shared across all technology areas to best serve VWT UK’s clients.
After graduating as a Chemical Engineer in South Africa, Peter has had a varied career across a number of industries from mining, to the amino acid fermentation industry, to the sugar industry - working in both South Africa and later Belgium. Since moving to the UK just over twenty years ago, Peter has worked solely in the water and wastewater industry before joining VWT UK earlier this year.
Peter is responsible for all VWT UK projects, using his technologies expertise to oversee
projects across the process water, municipal, industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Whilst visiting customers’ sites weekly, Peter is based along with the design teams in VWT’s new Birmingham office - now the hub of VWT’s technology projects.
“Veolia Water Technologies has always been a forward thinking company with a great deal to offer its clients in terms of new technologies and services, so I was delighted to join the UK team,” commented Peter. “With a number of projects in the pipeline using our leading technology solutions, this looks to be an exciting few years for VWT. There is also the pressing issue of Phosphorus removal in the municipal sector, for which we have technology solutions ready to implement.
“In particular I amlooking forward to uniting all of our project areas under one umbrella and
developing closer relationships with our global technology partners. In addition, over the next year we will be introducing some Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) solutions that will streamline our time on site and help us to implement our systems faster and more efficiently.”
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