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One Day Management Training - L8 Water Systems

Legionellosis: L8 The control of Legionella bacteria in water systems
- The Role of The Responsible Person -

HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT TRAINING

Thursday 6th May 2010 - Ashford, Kent.

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The updated guidelines for Legionellosis Control (L8) have been in place for over four years.

L8 and a wide variety of other legislation requires that water systems are properly installed, safely maintained and monitored to ensure effective hygiene control. This includes all premises where the Health & Safety at Work Act applies. Properties with hot and cold water services, tanks, calorifiers, showers, cooling systems and air conditioning are all now required to undertake Legionella control measures, and document actions taken.

When investigating outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease, the HSE frequently finds that standards of technical competence are unsatisfactory. This is attributed variously to staff changes, insufficient training, lack of technical awareness and failure in communication and, and frequently lead enforcement action.

Insurance companies and other monitoring agencies such as Care Standards, (now known as Commission for Social Care Inspection [CSCI]), are now also specifically identifying Control of Legionella as a necessary aspect of property management, without which insurance cover or registration may be hard to obtain.

Our experience has confirmed that those designated as Responsible Persons will benefit from specific training relating to their role, responsibility and liability as a Responsible Person.

The requirements for maintenance of specific and accurate records has affected the majority of buildings and requires a renewed emphasis on implementing precautions, updating procedures and practices.

We are again running our update specialist management training course structured for Responsible Persons involved in control of Water Systems, but which also includes other general aspects of Site Health & Safety.

The one-day course includes an assessment and certification of those who complete the day successfully.

The Responsible Persons course covers amongst other things:

• COSHH Regulations, CHIP Regulations

• ACOP on prevention and control of legionellosis

• Legal and moral advice

• Risk Assessments

• Legionella - Legionnaires' Disease - The bacteria and the illness

• Control strategies - Traditional and new

• Bacterial Sampling and result interpretation

• Disinfection and hygiene practices

• New treatment options

• Record keeping

• Assessing the efficiency of the systems/records

• Registration of wet cooling towers