期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
卷 240, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113916
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Water safety plan; Drinking water management; Risk management; First nations water systems; Co-development
This study co-developed a risk assessment web application with First Nations stakeholders to identify hazards and assess risk in communities, and found benefits including increased communication, data ownership, and centralized data management. Challenges remain, including fragmented governance realities and liability concerns associated with adopting new risk management strategies.
Despite several years of targeted interventions, First Nations drinking water systems in Canada remain under-resourced and require substantial improvements in both infrastructure and management to provide communities with safe drinking water. The purpose of this study was to co-develop a risk assessment process integral to the water safety planning methodology to determine if proactive risk assessment provides a beneficial management tool for First Nations water systems. We co-developed a risk assessment web-application with First Nations stakeholders to identify hazards and assess risk in six Atlantic region First Nations communities. Using this application, we were able to successfully identify high-risk hazards in each community, both risks specific to individual systems, and risks common at a regional level. Through semi-structured interviews we identified the following benefits of a risk assessment web application: increased communication, data ownership and centralized data management. However, challenges remain, including current fragmented governance realities, and liability concerns associated with adopting a new risk management strategy. Successful adoption of proactive risk management strategies in First Nations communities will depend on strong co-development of risk assessment tools, transparent communication between stakeholders and clearly defined data ownership and management practices.
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