Details
1-day course
CPD Credit: 6.5 hours; Competence/s: 1
Course Delivery Options
Course Overview
The course has been developed to support organisations and individuals with responsibility for conducting water hygiene risk assessments.
It is a legal requirement to have a legionella risk assessment of all cold and hot water systems. The risk assessments is usually carried out as a part of legionella risk management programme which help manage the risk of Legionnaires' disease. This risk assessment training has been developed in accordance with the guidelines and recommended practices issued by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the UK Health & Safety Executive L8. A risk assessment will have a significant impact on reducing liability should any problems occur.
The risk from Legionella in water systems is greatly reduced if regular monitoring is carried out as part of a risk management programme. This training will teach methods to ensure that the health risks are fully managed and that that the level of any contaminants remain below the legally acceptable levels.
The audit is crucial to the development or refinement of any good risk management programme. The audit process draws on the management requirements of the National Guidelines for the Control of Legionellosis in Ireland, 2009 and the UK HSE ACOP L8 and mirrors the practice of the ISO 9001 standard. Audit is typically used as an initial preparatory stage and on an annual basis to confirm compliance and improvement.
Course Programme
The objective of the Water Hygiene Risk Assessment training is to produce a clear, independent, broad management overview of compliance, achievements, improvement and any shortcomings to be addressed.
The training will cover the following areas:
- Appointments of Responsible Persons and associated staff.
- Roles, responsibilities and lines of communication
- Risk assessment and re-assessment of compliance
- Review of the policy and procedures document(s), records
- Implementation of remedial works
- Evidence of monitoring and performance of systems
- Staff training
- Tank Inspections and refurbishment
- Shower Cleaning
- pH & Temperature monitoring
- Suspended Solids
- Testing of water hardness, chloride and chemical Levels
- Microbiological Analysis, water sampling and testing undertaken by independent ILAB accredited laboratories.
- Compliance with current water regulations and code of practice
- Recommendations for refurbishment if necessary
- How to identify and evaluate potential sources of risk with regards to Legionella
Learning Outcomes
This course will give candidates an understanding of the fundamentals of conducting effective water hygiene risk assessments, the tools and techniques that can be employed to enhance organisational safety, and the methods needed to identify and reduce the risk of Legionella.
Who Should Attend?
Typical candidates will be water treatment engineers, facilities managers, maintenance and engineering contractors, and those with responsibility for the operation of commercial, industrial and process water and wastewater systems. Candidates will find this foundation course beneficial before progressing to our more specialist water and wastewater treatment training courses.
Other Courses in this Series:
This course is part of a new suite of wastewater related courses. For other courses in this series, check the links below:
- Water & Wastewater Chemical and Biological Analysis
- Microscopic Examination of Activated Sludge
- Water Treatment Processes Training
- Boiler Water testing
Trainer Profile
Trevor Montgomery
Trevor Montgomery is a Director & EHS Consultant working for Montgomery EHS Ltd with over 25 years specialising in Wastewater and Odour / VOC Treatment, and has completed third level courses in Dundalk IT, Sligo IT, UCC and UCD. He has developed a range of biological scrubbers for Odour and VOC’s from a variety of Industries from Animal Slaughtering, Seaweed extraction, Fish Processing, Dairy Industry, etc. He is employed by a number of companies as a retained consultancy for the design of wastewater treatment and odour management. In addition, he has worked with an extensive list of companies such as Thermo Fisher, Bio-Marine Ingredients, College Group, Mega Group, Carton Bros, Aurivo Ingredients, Glanbia, Silver Hill Duck, Arrabawn, Tipperary Cooperative, Hydro International, Leprino Foods to name a few.
Based in Limerick, Trevor has also served on policy committees for local government and lectured at various universities. To date, Trevor has delivered over 1000 days of training on these topics (calculated as 1 training day equalling 1 person attending 1 course for 1 day).
Engineers Ireland supports the Sustainable Development Goals. This event contributes to Engineers Ireland's Sustainability Framework.
Please contact the CPD Training Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options.