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NWTC is the first Training Center autho-
rized in France to provide training for
the Proficiency Certificate for Working in
Confined Spaces (CATEC®),
which aims to
prevent the risk of accidents, albeit infrequent
but often severe because lethal, facing staff
working in some drinking water supply or
sanitation facilities, such as sewers, pumping
stations or water tanks.
The concepts always developed by
NWTC,
i.e. practical training, delivered on secure faci-
lities, models of real structures, are indeed
included in the frame of references.
For CATEC®,
NWTC
has developed sanita-
tion structures that can be visited constituting
a unique tool in France, including its associa-
ted educational units.
The most spectacular facility is an under-
ground network of 100 m long, supplied
with water and very realistic. It allows
the participants to work safely in condi-
tions very similar to real ones. It also
allows the simulation of alerts and acci-
dents for comprehensive training of the
trainees.
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In early 2012, the French National
Agency for Water and Aquatic Environ-
ments (ONEMA), ”AQUAREF” and the
International Office for Water establi-
shed a working group to develop trai-
ning reference frames relating to the
sampler ’s job and based on existing
“AQUAREF” guidelines and documents.
These reference frames are intended primarily
to improve and homogenize practices and
thereby promote better recognition of the
sampler’s profession.
Two first training reference frames were deve-
loped by
IOWater:
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”Sampling of water and phytoplankton in
rivers;
l
”Water sampling in the context of the
monitoring program for Water Bodies in
France: Core curriculum”.
Upon request of the French Water Agen-
cies, NWTC is organizing training ses-
sions based on these reference frames.
Two other training reference frames are being
developed:
l
”Sampling of water and phytoplankton in
lakes”;
l
”Sampling of wastewater to search for
priority and emerging micro-pollutants”.
These reference frames are to be disseminated
so that samplers can benefit from homoge-
neous training consistent with current techni-
cal requirements.
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Training reference frames on ”water samples”
Training course for better controlling sampling
Trainees making samples
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Proficiency Certificate for Working
in Confined Spaces (CATEC®)
New sanitation
processes
The Working Group on
the Evaluation of
New Sanitation Processes for Small
and Medium Communities (EPNAC)
aims to acquire, share and disseminate
knowledge on wastewater treatment pro-
cesses for small and medium Communities.
IOWater
participates in the “EPNAC
group”, alongside the French Water Agen-
cies, IRSTEA, the Technical Services for
Assistance to Wastewater Treatment Plant
managers (SATESE) and some Departmental
Planning Directorates (DDT).
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The undergound network
