Organization: RedR Australia
Registration deadline: 03 Oct 2016
Starting date: 08 Oct 2016
Ending date: 14 Oct 2016
Some of the most common needs of people affected by any disaster are access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene. Appropriate interventions improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practice have a marked improvement on reducing disease transmission, alleviating the suffering of the community, and saving lives.
Aims & Objectives
This course will introduce participants to the concepts of public health engineering and environmental health in emergencies, the standard equipment applied in the field and the basics of WASH cluster coordination.
By the end of the course, participants will understand:
- the links between water, sanitation and health
- the nature of, and the threats posed by, environmental diseases
- the importance and main elements of hygiene-promotion
- the complexity in delivering safe water and sanitation in an emergency
- the standard equipment used in the field for an emergency WASH response
- planning and coordinating WASH responses in emergencies
Who should attend?
This course is an ideal introduction to public health engineering in emergencies for humanitarian workers of all disciplines, levels and experience; engineers whose technical skills are more oriented toward large scale urban systems and who want to adapt them to humanitarian emergency work; and anyone who has already worked in humanitarian relief and wants to improve or learn new public health engineering skills.
Course Outline
- Health risks in emergencies
- Rapid assessments, reporting and monitoring
- Disease surveillance
- Coordination and partnerships
- Hygiene promotion
- Water quality testing and monitoring
- Environmental sanitation (solid waste management, vector control)
- Excreta disposal and latrines
- Site selection
- Water source identification
- Water pumping and distribution
- Water trucking operations
- Transition issues (from emergency to rehabilitation)
- Decommissioning and storage of equipment
How to register:
To register your attendance, please complete the online application form found here.