Opus offers swimming pool water treatment courses of various sizes for many audiences:

Pool Water Treatment and Operations Course

Unit Standard 5692: Treat Public Pool Water & 5693: Operate and Maintain Public Pool Water Treatment Plant and Equipment.  Opus offers these essential units for municipal pool operators in three two-day modules delivered a month apart.  The three modules being:

• Introduction to pool treatment
• Pool equipment
• Pool chemistry

Each module has been designed so that individually they provide continuing professional development, and together covering unit standards 5692 & 5693.

Small Pool Operators (Unit Standard 20046)

Opus offers a one-day course for small pool operators such as schools and the hospitality industry, which incorporates unit standard 20046: Monitor public pool water quality and safe storage of chemicals.  Opus has trained over 1900 students with backgrounds as diverse as school staff and volunteers, health protection officers, moteliers and hospital staff.

Small Pool Operators (Unit Standard 18339)

Opus offers a more intensive programme of study over two-days incorporating unit standard 18339: Operate and manage public pool water quality in school, institutional or hospitality industry pools.  Successful completion of 20046 is a prerequisite for students wishing to complete this pool treatment study.

“We consider the time and money spent attending the Opus Environmental Training Sessions absolutely invaluable for pool and plant operators.  We regularly see the benefit to operators who have attended these courses in their day-to-day understanding of their systems, chemistry and requirement for maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for bathers.”  David Cameron  Contracts Manager, Filtration & Pumping Commercial Ltd