Introducing BS 8680:2020 Water quality. Water Safety Plans. Code of Practice

Webinar replay

Recorded: 8 July 2020 (1pm - 2pm UK Time)

The ideal tool to implement a water safety plan to ensure your systems are safe; particularly when you return to work after CV-19 lockdown

What is this webinar about?

This webinar introduced BS 8680:2020, the first-ever British Standard on water safety planning. The standard gives users guidance on developing and implementing water safety plans to ensure building water is safe. The webinar is particularly pertinent to organizations returning to premises after the CV-19 lockdown.

Who participated in the webinar?

Those responsible for water safety planning
Those involved in water systems management who want to demonstrate current good practice and compliance
Duty holders and appointed responsible/accountable persons
Water Safety Groups and all those having an influence on the safety of water systems, including those involved in the development process for new and refurbished/upgraded systems
Operators, users, service providers, water treatment providers, professional bodies and regulators, public health and environmental health professionals, risk assessors, providers of sampling and laboratory services, repair and maintenance, specialist advisors/authorising engineers, standard-setting bodies and certification agencies, infection-control teams and personnel in hospitals, healthcare, dental and medical facilities, etc.

Why should you watch this webinar?

The poor design and management of water systems in buildings can cause the outbreak of easily preventable diseases. BS 8680 sets out recommendations and guidance on how to implement a Water Safety Plan (WSP), which is the most effective way of consistently ensuring water supply safety.

The standard:

Provides authoritative recommendations and guidance for Water Safety Planning to help ensure public health and safety
Provides a preventative risk-management approach, based on a method developed by the World Health Organization
Supplements UK national guidance for healthcare premises
It will assist Water Safety Groups to ensure they have a holistic approach to water safety across all types of systems and equipment which use or contain water.
Can be applied to all types of premises and undertakings with water systems that can pose a risk to those exposed, either from the water itself or aerosols
Can be applied retrospectively to control risks to health from all types of water use

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Chair: Elise Maynard - member of the panel for BS 8680 representing "WMSoc"

Elise provides independent consultancy to the water and medical devices industries. She has served as Chair of the Water Management Society and was awarded Fellowship in recognition of her services to both the Society and the Industry. She is a BSI committee member and has been involved in the development of several British and international standards. She was also on the steering group for Department of Health HTM 04-01: Safe water in healthcare premises.

Elise is a registered Biomedical Scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) and also of the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), where she is an active member of the water special interest group. Elise is also a member of the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) and sits on their Water Group and is a member of the Central Sterilising Club (CSC). She has been admitted as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers. Elise has presented or chaired at numerous international events and has published a number of peer-reviewed papers. She is an independent adviser for a number of Water Safety Groups both in Primary Care and Hospital Trusts.

Speaker: Dr. Susanne Surman-Lee BSc.(Hons) PhD C.Biol. , FRSB, FRSPH.,FIHEEM,FWMSoc, MPWTAG

Dr Susanne Surman-Lee is the Chair of the BSI panel that drafted the BS 8680 Water Safety plans Code of Practice and BS 8580-part 2 Code of Practice for risk assessment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other waterborne pathogens. She is a longstanding member of both national and international standards committees producing standards relating to water microbiology.

She is a State Registered Clinical Scientist (Public Health Microbiologist) with over 45 years’ experience in clinical and public health microbiology. She is a former Director of the HPA (now Public Health England) London Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory and now Director and Co-owner of Leegionella Ltd.; an independent public health consultancy recognized internationally and nationally for both training and its expertise in the detection of waterborne pathogens and prevention of waterborne disease by the development and implementation of water safety plans, especially in healthcare and the travel industry.

She is a Member of the National Register of University Certificated Expert Witnesses, Programme Director for the RSPH Water Webinar Series and Chair of the RSPH Water Special Interest Group. For almost 20 years she has been involved with the development of national and international guidelines including the World Health Organisation publications Legionella and the Prevention of legionellosis and Water safety in Buildings, HSG 274, HSG 282, HTM 04-01, PWTAG Swimming Pool Water and Hot Tubs for Business, Water management Society Guidance and is chair of the ESCMID Study group for Legionella Infections (ESGLI) working group which produced the ESGLI Technical Guidelines for the prevention, control and investigation of infections caused by Legionella, ESGLI Guidance for Managing Legionella in Dental practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, ESGLI Guidance for managing Legionella in Nursing and Care Home water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, ESGLI Guidance for managing Legionella in hospital water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, ESGLI Guidance for managing Legionella in building water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic