Question

what is Water safety Plan (WSP) and how to implement it?

Answer 1

• A water safety plan is a plan to ensure the safety of drinking water through the use of a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all steps in water supply from catchment to consumer.with the aim of consistently ensuring the safety and acceptability of a drinking-water supply.

A WSP comprises, as a minimum, the three key components that are the responsibility of the drinking-water supplier in order to ensure that drinking-water is safe. These are:

• a system assessment;
• effective operational monitoring;
• management and communication.

1. a system assessment to determine whether the drinking-water supply chain (up to the point of consumption) as a whole can deliver water of a quality that meets identified targets. This also includes the assessment of design criteria of new systems;
2. identifying control measures in a drinking-water system that will collectively control identified risks and ensure that the health-based targets are met. For each control measure identified, an appropriate means of operational monitoring should be defined that will ensure that any deviation from required performance is rapidly detected in a timely manner;
3. management and communication plans describing actions to be taken during normal operation or incident conditions and documenting the system assessment, including upgrade and improvement planning, monitoring and communication plans and supporting programmes.