All legionella monitoring programmes for cooling water systems should include routine sampling and testing for the presence of bacteria, both general (aerobic) bacterial species and Legionella bacteria.
The UK’s Health & Safety Executive’s final report in to the events surrounding the Barrow outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2002.
Written by our health sector specialist team, this Guide to Legionella Risk Assessments for Doctors, GP’s & Healthcare Professionals has been prepared to help those involved with the provision of medical and healthcare services, including GP’s and doctors, medical support staff, practice managers; and property and building service engineers.
In a legionella control context the term “Responsible Person” is identified in the Health & Safety Exectutive’s Approved Code of Practice document L8 as someone with day-to-day responsibility for controlling any identified risk from Legionella bacteria.
For landlords, property owners and managers, legionella compliance is an essential organisational risk management process that must be carefully managed. The consequences of getting it wrong can be serious, particularly for those individuals involved with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, including the responsible organisation and its staff.
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive have recently issued a warning concerning the standard of legionella risk assessments following the successful conviction of a UK water treatment company that conducted inadequate and misleading surveys at several nursing homes.
The bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease is widespread in nature. It mainly lives in water, for example ponds, where it does not usually cause problems.
Legionella compliance for residential care homes, nursing homes and healthcare premises is an essential process that must be carefully managed as the consequences of getting it wrong can be serious.
The bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease is widespread in nature. It mainly lives in water, for example ponds, where it does not usually cause problems.
Legionella compliance for schools, colleges, universities and other education premises is an essential organisational risk management process that must be carefully managed. Get to grips with the process with our legionella checklist.