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Blog post: 07/10/2025 10:25 am

Author: Spark Team

VR SOP Training for Water & Wastewater Treatment

Custom VR that strengthens safety, environmental compliance, and process stability

Utilities must protect public health while operating ageing assets and complex, distributed sites. Spark designs and builds bespoke VR SOP training that replicates your treatment trains—intake, screening, coagulation/flocculation, filtration, disinfection, activated sludge, anaerobic digestion, dewatering—so operators practise start-up, shut-down, and upset response safely and consistently.

Utility pain points our VR solves

• Permit-to-work & isolation: LOTO on pumps, blowers, MCCs; confined space and gas testing.
• Process upsets: turbidity spikes, chemical dosing errors, foaming, filamentous bulking.
• Environmental compliance: consent limits, spill response, bypass protocols, odour control.
• Distributed workforce: skills variation across remote works, contractor onboarding.
• Emergency response: chlorine leaks, power failures, flood events.

Bespoke build pathway

1. Discovery & mapping: SOPs, P&IDs, site layouts, telemetry/SCADA interactions.
2. Scenario design: plant start-ups/shut-downs, chemical swaps, storm events, generator changeover.
3. AI avatar guidance: step prompts for dosing, sampling, safety tests, and consent checks.
4. Assessment & analytics: right-first-time, critical step adherence, time-to-safe-state.
5. Deployment: modular content for different works, multilingual support, LMS integration.

Operational outcomes

• Fewer permit breaches and faster recovery from process upsets.
• Consistent operations across remote sites and shifts.
• Improved audit readiness and public-health assurance.
• Safer contractor onboarding for high-risk tasks.

Why Spark

We build to your assets, SOPs, and environmental commitments—translating directly to the field and the control room.

Scope a bespoke VR SOP programme for your water network. Contact Spark.

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