Legionnaires disease: Ensuring your water management system is risk compliant
Venue: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Date: October 28th 2010
Session time: 9.00am to 5.00pm. Registration and tea/coffee at 8.30am
Fee: Engineers Ireland members €195* / €245 Non-members €245* / €295
CPD credit: 1
* Early bird special: Quote promotional code LL838 to avail of this offer (Offer ends October 21st, 2010)
Course aim
The aim of this course is to introduce National Guidelines for the Control of Legionellosis to engineering professionals and equip them with a basic knowledge of system design and repair with a view to minimising risk, risk assessment of existing systems, monitoring and inspection procedures and the recording of results and reporting procedures.
Overview
The 2009 publication of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) requires owners and operators of water systems to assess the risk of Legionellosis contamination, manage the perceived risk and monitor the effectiveness of the management regime. Prosecution can result from negligence. Management of the water systems includes the selection of water treatment service providers and engineers with knowledge and understanding of the bacteriological hazards associated with water systems, the need for safe working practices, monitoring procedures and the recording of results and the reporting of system conditions.
Learning objectives
- To provide an understanding of the current Health and Safety legislation.
- To provide an understanding of the ecology of the bacteria and susceptible groups
- To learn the basics of risk assessment procedures
- To provide the knowledge necessary to enable ‘designing out’ the risk during new installations or existing system repairs and modifications.
- To provide an understanding of the need to be accurate and vigilant in recording data and visual inspection notes and the methodology of reporting defects to the client.
- To enable the interpretation of water sample analysis results and temperatures.
Programme
- Introduction to HPSC and Health and Safety Legislation (with references to HSC L8 where applicable)
- Legionella ecology and susceptible groups
- Risk assessment in practice
- Design and installation practises
- Monitoring, interpretation of results and system management
- Open forum
Who should attend
The course is aimed at installation, servicing and maintenance engineers as well as site safety officers, site supervisors and plant managers who have been given the responsibility for the management of water systems on behalf of their employer or client portfolio.
Why should I attend
This course is designed to provide you with a fundamental knowledge and understanding of Legionnaires Disease, its prevalence in our water systems and equip you to progress within the water services industry.
Trainer's profile
David Shippey has been an engineer in the installation and maintenance of water systems for more than 40 years, specialising in the prevention and control of Legionellosis since the BBC outbreak in London in 1988, forming his own independent consultancy practice in 2000. David’s expertise is primarily in the fields of domestic hot and cold water systems and factory process water systems where conventional water treatment methods normally utilised in cooling water installations are impractical.
David is a qualified Legionella risk assessor and systems design engineer to City & Guilds standard and, until recently, was a member for 12 years of the Council of Management of the Water Management Society, sitting on the Technical Sub-Committee and Training Committee and seconded to the Legionella Control Association Council of Management as the W.M.Soc representative.
Special requirements
Course delegates should have an understanding of domestic and industrial water systems.
Course contact
CPD Training, Engineers Ireland
T: +353 1 665 1305 / F: +353 1 665 1370
E: cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie