"Water jobs, jobs at risk!" Focus on IOWater CATEC® training

Water professionals are regularly called upon to intervene in confined, potentially dangerous or even deadly spaces. Baptiste Clarke, journalist at Actu-Environnement, followed Régis Lamardelle, confirmed trainer at the International Office for Water during a spectacular training: the one that allows to obtain the Certificate of Ability to Work in Confined Spaces (CATEC®).

Thanks to the life-size infrastructures available to the National Water Training Center of IOWater, Régis Lamardelle puts the trainees in situation and stimulates them to the maximum. He must teach all the good practices, all the reflexes to have whatever the situations encountered.

The NWTC is the first training organisation authorised to provide training for the Certificate of Aptitude to Work in Confined Spaces (CATEC®). Approved by the National Health Insurance Fund for Employees (CNAMTS) , CATEC® is a qualifying training scheme managed by the French National Institute for Research in Security (INRS). It aims to prevent the risks of accidents, albeit infrequent but often tragic because they are fatal, faced by personnel carrying out interventions in certain drinking water or sanitation works.

Find CATEC® training courses on the NWTC website.