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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Session Structure
• Overview
• Actions
• Challenges
• Outputs
• Exercises
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Overview
Engage senior management
Define time frame
Identify required expertise
Appoint team leader
Define roles and responsibilities
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Actions: Engage senior management
• Why do we need it?
• To support changes in work practices
• To provide financial and resource support
• How can we generate it?
• Showcase the benefits of WSP
• Highlight if there is a legal requirement
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Actions: Identify required expertise and size
• Skills and experience
Hazard identification and risk assessment
Knowledge of the supply chain:
Catchment
Treatment
Distribution
User
• Authority to implement change
• Identify need for external stakeholders/consultants
• Size of team depends on organization size and system
complexity
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Actions: Appoint a team leader
• Needed to ensure focus
• Authority, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to secure external support if needed
• Partnering arrangements
• National or international assistance programmes
• Resources (e.g. the Internet)
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Actions: Define roles and responsibilities
• Should be clearly defined and documented
• Document WSP-related activities and who will be responsible
• WSP team and stakeholder identification forms
Name
Affiliation
Title
Role within team
Contact information
Name of employee
Organization
Job title
What is the employee
responsible for?
Telephone number and
email address
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Actions: Define time frame
• Initial development = considerable time input
• Time spent in field increases
• Reliance on the results of routine lab tests decreases
Time input
• Once WSP established, time input decreases
Time
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Challenges
• Finding skilled personnel
• Organizing the workload
• Identifying and engaging external stakeholders
• Keeping the team together
• Effective communication
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Outputs
• An experienced, multidisciplinary skill-set
• Understanding of the components of the system
• Be well placed to assess risks
• Have an understanding of the health-based targets that need to
be achieved
• Expertise to confirm whether the system can meet relevant
standards
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Exercises
• In small groups
• List an “ideal” WSP team from your utility (real people, see
workbook for details that should be recorded)
• What other information would you record?
• Is expertise missing, and if so, what areas of expertise are needed
and how would you source this?
• Are there external stakeholders that should be approached?
• 25 minutes
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Module 1 Assemble the WSP team
Summary of WSP stage 1 – Preparation
Preliminary actions,
including assembling
the team (Module 1)
Engage senior management, identify required expertise
and appropriate size of the team, appoint team leader,
define roles and responsibilities and define a time frame
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