Micro-Credentials 2024
10-Jul-2024
About this event
The Micro-Credential Courses 2024 will be delivered between July and September 2024. To learn more about the courses, follow the link to the webinar recording under each course topic for a one-hour introduction to the course.
Operational Implications of the Drinking Water Quality Management Plan
This non accredited training course is aimed at helping operators and operational support staff understand the importance of a Drinking Water Quality Management Plan (DWQMP) and the critical role operators play in ensuring the thorough implementation of the DWQMP.
The DWQMP is a comprehensive risk-based framework required under Queensland legislation. It includes many elements in which the role of the operator is an essential component.
This training will help operational staff to better understand the critical management plan operational touch points, to ensure the plan meets its intended purpose to supply safe drinking water and manage risks from catchment to consumer.
Date of Course: 6 August 2024
Course Duration: 6 hours + assessments
Delivery Location: Regional Delivery in Cairns (Venue TBC)
Places Available: 16
Making Use of Water Quality Data
This non accredited training course is intended to help staff appreciate the value of using water quality data collected as part of operational roles. It also aims at helping make use of tools like Excel spreadsheets and swimlocal to record data, see data trends, identify emerging issues, make informed decisions on corrective actions and comply with the organisation’s Drinking Water Quality Management Plan (DWQMP).
Data is needed to verify treatment processes are working as required to confirm safe quality water is provided to communities. However, teams should not only focus on checking data against numerical targets or guideline values. Systematic reviews and analysis of water quality data helps identify emerging problems and trends and assists in determining priorities for improving drinking water quality.
Visualisation is critical to data analysis. This course helps teams to ensure data is recorded electronically, in a format making it easy to chart trends and interrogate results.
Date of Course: 7 August 2024
Course Duration: 4-6 hours + assessments
Delivery Location: Regional Delivery in Cairns (Venue TBC)
Places Available: 16
Fluoridation of Water Supplies for Non-Operators
This non accredited training course has been developed as an overview of Fluoridation requirements to support managers, engineers and agency officers. The course is not intended to meet all the requirements of the National Water Training Package or Units of Competency and is not intended for Operational staff.
Fluoridation in Queensland is regulated under the Water Fluoridation Act 2008 and Water Fluoridation Regulation 2020. The design and operation of infrastructure for adding fluoride to drinking water supplies is described in the Queensland Water Fluoridation Code of Practice. The Water Fluoridation Regulation 2020 and the Code of Practice include a wide range of safeguards to ensure that fluoride is safely added to water supplies.
The Code of Practice says that operators of fluoridation facilities must be appropriately qualified. This means they must have the necessary training, knowledge and experience to competently operate a fluoridation facility.
Dates of Course: 28 August (cohort 1), 29 August (cohort 2) and 10 September 2024 (cohort 3)
Course Duration: 6.5 hours
Delivery Location: qldwater Offices, Level 1, 6 Eagleview Place, Eagle Farm QLD 4009
Places Available: 15 per cohort
An Introduction to SCADA
This non accredited training course is intended as an introduction and overview of SCADA and telemetry systems utilised within the water and sewerage industry and to also provide practical workplace examples of how these systems operate on a day-to-day basis.
It is designed for field and operations staff to ensure these staff are able to confidently monitor, operate and report upon the performance of their water and sewerage assets and also response appropriately to events and alarms.
This will also include how SCADA systems can support drinking water management systems and critical control points (CCPs) for the ongoing delivery of safe drinking water.
Date of Course: 4 - 5 September 2024
Course Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Delivery Location: qldwater Offices, Level 1, 6 Eagleview Place, Eagle Farm QLD 4009
Places Available: 12
Fluoridation of Water Supplies for Operators
This non accredited training course has been developed to support operators to meet the requirements of the Queensland regulation and code of practice. This course is not intended to meet all the requirements of the National Water Training Package or Units of Competency.
Fluoridation in Queensland is regulated under the Water Fluoridation Act 2008 and Water Fluoridation Regulation 2020. The design and operation of infrastructure for adding fluoride to drinking water supplies is described in the Queensland Water Fluoridation Code of Practice. The Water Fluoridation Regulation 2020 and the Code of Practice include a wide range of safeguards to ensure that fluoride is safely added to water supplies.
The Code of Practice says that operators of fluoridation facilities must be appropriately qualified. This means they must have the necessary training, knowledge and experience to competently operate a fluoridation facility.
Date of Course: TBC
Course Duration: 11 hours (1.5 days)
Delivery Location: qldwater Offices, Level 1, 6 Eagleview Place, Eagle Farm QLD 4009
Places Available: 10
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