Legionella Responsible Person Refresher

You should be working in a position with responsibility for maintaining safe building water systems and have attended the Eastwood Park ‘Legionella responsible person’ or an equivalent course in the last three years. The course builds upon previous training experience and updates you with recent changes in the field and current case studies. Therefore prior knowledge and training is essential.

Aim/Overview

To provide an understanding of the importance of managing water hygiene related risks, roles, responsibility and liabilities, and of the use of important techniques such as development of an adequate risk assessment, risk minimisation schemes, monitoring and audit in order to achieve compliance.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Describe Legionella, its requirements and how to control it.

• Explain how to discharge their roles and responsibilities and the required appointments.

• Describe the legal requirements including the duty to manage Legionella.

• Identify the elements of a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.

• Describe the concept of a suitable written scheme of control.

• Identify what makes a suitable and sufficient records and monitoring system.