Safety, Health and Environmental Awareness Schemes (SHEA) - Water

Our Safety Health and Environmental Awareness (SHEA) suite of schemes have been developed in collaboration with industry to provide a uniform approach to health, safety and environmental awareness training across the utilities sector, in line with Health and Safety Executive guidelines.

Our SHEA Water scheme is designed for individuals who require access to operational sites within the water industry, both permanent and temporary, at all levels including operatives, supervisors and management.

The SHEA Water scheme consists of 8 modules – Modules 1-6 from SHEA Core which are relevant for all utility industries and support workplace practice in relation to health, safety and environmental law. Modules 20 and 21 are specific to the UK Water Industry. It is designed to provide evidence that an individual has demonstrated an appropriate level of knowledge, understanding and behavioural awareness. Individuals must successfully complete training and assessment for all 8 modules. The scheme and does not indicate any level of technical competence or skilled expertise.The scheme consists of 4 modules covering awareness of safe water hygiene practices:

Module 1: The importance of water
Module 2: Water as a carrier of disease
Module 3: Potential contamination and its consequences
Module 4: Preventing contamination

This a either a full day or half a day course and can be delivered by a trainer or as a self paced e-learning package.Dates for trainer led courses can be found here


SHEA Water EUSR registration is valid for three years. To renew a SHEA Water EUSR registration, the training and assessment must be re-taken.

For the renewal of SHEA Water EUSR registration, there are several routes:

Duration Training Delivery & Assessment Method
Full Day Face to face training delivery in a classroom and paper-based assessment
Full Day Remote training delivery via an e-Classroom and remote assessment or e-assessment
Half Day Face to face training delivery in a classroom and paper-based assessment
Half Day Remote training delivery via an e-Classroom and remote assessment or e-assessment
Half Day eLearning delivery and e-assessment
The half-day and e-Learning renewal routes to SHEA Water EUSR registration are not available for those without a current SHEA registration.



SHEA Mapped
Some organisations already carry out their own health and safety training, sometimes as part of an induction for new employees or when an employee moves to a more operational role. If this is the case, then this training can be mapped to our SHEA standards.

An individual successfully completing your own approved SHEA Mapped training programme is eligible for SHEA registration on EUSR. It is a mandatory requirement, for SHEA Mapped training programmes, that you use EUSR SHEA assessments and to deliver SHEA Mapped, you must be an EUSR approved provider.

SHEA Mapped is useful for employers as it stops duplication of training on similar Health and safety topics.

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This training is delivered on-line by a trainer, saving travel time and cost..
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