Legionella Risk Assessment

• To comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act all landlords and premises operators must carry out a Legionella Risk Assessment survey.

• The survey examines the water services at your site or building and delivers a set of recommendations to ensure that there is a hygiene and legionella management control system in place.

• Remember you need to have a full up-to-date schematic of your water pipework.

• Records must be taken on a regular basis and kept in a properly documented Log Book

Legionnaires' disease got its name from the first outbreak in which the bacteria  was identified as the cause. This outbreak occurred in 1976, in a Philadelphia hotel where the Pennsylvania American Legion was having a convention