Challenges and Facilitating Factors to Implement Water Safety Plans: a Systematic Review

Purpose: We aim to identify the factors that facilitated or difficult implementation of Water Safety Plans (WSP) worldwide.
 
 Method: Systematic survey at Web Science and Scopus database. The final analysis papers involved extraction metadata, with aid software R, spreadsheets iramuteq 0.7 alpha 2.
 Results conclusion: main challenges implement safety plans are teamwork, timeframe management, documentation registration information, financial issues, understanding importance WSP lack commitment high-level directors. facilitate adaptation local reality, existence previous conditions already implemented, support positive Some may affect positively negatively, such as issues; directors project; similar practices in execution. most cited direct benefits were safer water; improvement information; team communication; more efficient active management services; increase team’s self-confidence.
 Research implications: planning preparation steps must include strategies overcome challenges. execution.
 Originality/value: This paper contributes a general overview facilitators examples available scientific papers, which help future success avoid usual mistakes this plan.