SANS 241:2025 Drinking Water Quality Monitoring, Risk Management & Compliance
Learn how SANS 241:2025 Drinking Water Quality Monitoring, Risk Management & Compliance in South Africa through proactive, risk-based water safety standards.
- Online – Microsoft Teams
- 31 July 2026
- 2 CPD Points
- Price : R 5 999.00
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
Explain the purpose, structure and application of SANS 241:2025.
Interpret drinking water quality requirements and determinand classifications.
Apply risk-based monitoring principles to a water supply system.
Recognise the essentials of compliant sampling and interpret a laboratory report.
Respond appropriately to a water quality exceedance or incident.
Differentiate between operational, aesthetic and health-related risk.
Identify the records needed to demonstrate due diligence and audit readiness.
Introduction to SANS 241:2025 and the Legal Framework
- Overview of drinking water quality management in South Africa
- Purpose and scope of SANS 241:2025
- Evolution from SANS 241:2015 to SANS 241:2025
- Relationship between SANS 241 and South African legislation
- Duties of responsible bodies
- Public health obligations
- Introduction to risk-based compliance
Drinking Water Determinands and Compliance Principles
- Microbiological determinands
- Chemical determinands
- Physical determinands
- Aesthetic determinands
- Operational determinands
- Radiological screening requirements
- Health implications of non-compliance
- Understanding “deemed safe” drinking water
Risk-Based Monitoring and Water Quality Management
- Hazard identification
- Risk characterisation
- Monitoring programme design
- Mandatory process risk parameters
- System-specific risk-defined parameters
- Monitoring frequencies
- Sampling point selection
- Borehole and small-system monitoring considerations
District Metered Areas (DMAs) & Flow Analysis
- Designing DMA systems
- Isolation and zoning strategies
- Minimum night flow analysis
- Flow and pressure monitoring
- Data logging techniques
- Burst identification methods
- DMA performance indicators
- Real-time network monitoring
Water Sampling and Laboratory Analysis
- Sampling principles
- Representative sampling techniques
- Chain-of-custody procedures
- Sample preservation and transport
- Field testing requirements
- Laboratory quality assurance
- SANAS-accredited testing
- Interpretation of laboratory reports
Compliance Evaluation and Incident Response
- Interpretation of exceedances
- Health, operational and aesthetic risk classification
- Incident escalation procedures
- Corrective actions
- Boil water notices
- Do-not-use notices
- Distribution network contamination events
- Consumer communication principles
Roles, Responsibilities and Compliance Documentation
- Responsibilities of WSAs and WSPs
- Compliance officer responsibilities
- Environmental health oversight
- Audit preparedness
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Monitoring registers
- Incident documentation
- Evidence of due diligence