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Sanitation Safety Planning For Sanitation

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1. Sanitation Safety Planning
Sanitation safety planning (SSP) is a risk-based management tool for sanitation systems that prevents exposure to disease-causing excreta, from containment through emptying, transport, treatment, and to disposal or reuse phase (Organization, Sanitation safety planning, Manuel for Safe Use and Disposal of wastewater, greywater, and excreta 2015).
SSP can be applied in both formal and informal settings for improving existing systems. SSP is also useful in the reduction of health impacts while increasing the benefits of reuse.
First step in the SSP is a system assessment, to identify the sanitation chain, exposure groups, pathways, and potential hazards. Second step is the develop and implementation of …show more content…

The organization responsible for overseeing collection and transport can has to assure the provision of appropriate equipment, working according to standard operating procedures. Controls may also include proper design and construction of sanitation systems, working with trained operators, and have a preventive maintenance program. For example, periodic testing of effluent and checks on delivery volumes may be included in the monitoring phase. As the performance of the treatment plant have a serious effect on the way the bio-solids are applied in the farm, pathogens can be recycled back to the community leading to a disease outbreak. Costs in terms of public health and businesses reputation need to be taken into account.
Following with the forth step which consist of developing supporting programs and reviewing plans. When the fecal sludge is delivered to the treatment plant, adequate management is not always done and some products end in dumping sites leading to serious health and environmental impacts. In that case, SSP should also identify dumping as a hazardous event and include controls and monitoring to manage these risks posed to the wider community. A plan can also be developed at the treatment level, so that effluent and bio-solids meet agreed standards (Organization, Sanitation safety planning, Manuel for Safe Use and Disposal of wastewater, greywater, and excreta 2015).
2. Sanitation from a Gender perspective
Gender refers to the

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