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Legionella sampling: Part 3 - Testing methods & what next?
As a recap on the firstand second parts of this blog series on sampling, we’ve already covered; sampling strategy, taking a water sample and the chain of custody. In this final blog of the series,...
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Legionella Risk in Schools: Key points for good water management
Good water safety management within school properties can be distilled into the following areas: 1 – Determining management arrangements and responsibility; 2 – Establishing the level of Legionella...
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5 Step Guide: Legionella Risk Management - Education Estates
What is the appetite for risk amongst managers of education estates with responsibility for health & safety? We would expect such organisations to operate on the basis that risks to health and...
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Closed System Treatment & Analysis - Why we need to do it?
In this blog, we discuss water chemistry and closed-system water treatment where the principal guidance is taken from BSRIA guide BG50:2021. This guide is intended for use by facilities managers...
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Continued growth of our Authorising Engineer (Water) Team
Our seventh Senior Consultant joined the team at the start of January, a great start to the New Year!
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Legionella Management - ‘The Pros/Cons of Remote Monitoring’
Remote monitoring of water temperatures is far from new. However, in the recent past seen as a lazy method of monitoring. An often-raised question is about a system’s reliability as well as the...
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Legionella & School Holidays – What Should I Do?
If you are a Duty Holder or formally appointed Responsible Person (Water), e.g. Head Teacher, Business Manager Maintenance Manager or similar, you have a legal responsibility to ensure that the...
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Water Safety & Legionella: How to improve your record keeping?
In our recent blog What are 'Good Records' for water safety? we learnt what water safety records are, why we need to keep them, and how to make them “good”. In this blog, we discuss ways to...
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BS 8580-2:2022 explained, including Engineering Assessments
Commonly, Legionella risk assessments do not consider the risks from microbial hazards such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.aeruginosa) and other waterborne pathogens.
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TMV Maintenance – Lessons Learnt!
In this blog we will discuss; what we have learnt about TMV Maintenance, how these lessons have been applied and what we should consider for future improvement.
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