Legionella Water Testing & Risk Assessments
Here at Croston Plumbing & Heating, we offer a range of Legionella risk assessments and control services to our domestic and commercial customers across the North West.
What is Legionnaires disease?
What are legal obligations?
How to reduce the risk of Legionella
Identify and assess the potential risk
The first step towards ensuring your property is safe from Legionnaire’s disease is to identify and assess the risk of Legionella. It is a legal duty for Landlords to assess the risk of Legionella exposure in their properties, and also to control this risk.
Respond and manage the risk
Once the risk of Legionella in your property has been identified and assessed, the second step in the process is to begin the process of managing the risk. This will involve implementing the recommendations from the risk assessment, selecting contractors to maintain the system and arranging for routine monitoring as required.
Prevention & control
It is important to note that the spread of Legionnaire’s disease is very much preventable. The best way to prevent Legionella is to reduce the amount of stored water. Where the risk cannot be prevented through elimination it must be adequately controlled. One of the main ways to do this is to control the temperature.
Record your activity
If you have had a risk assessment completed you must keep a record of it so that you can evidence the actions taken to eliminate or reduce the risk. Maintaining a water log book for the building can be a useful way of recording water temperatures and other checks to demonstrate that you are managing risks appropriately.