This course is designed to enable the student to learn the guidelines for acceptable practices for testing, annual inspection, and repair of backflow prevention assemblies used in cross-connection control programs. Course material includes information needed for identifying cross-connections, understanding how backflows occur and the dangers they present, methods used to control backflows and recommended applications for each type of backflow assembly, laws and liability, and hands-on testing and maintenance procedures for various assemblies. The student who successfully passes the certification exam administered at the conclusion of the course will be certified as a Backflow Prevention and Assembly Tester.
