Water & Hygiene

Keegans have significant experience of completing Risk Assessments of hot & cold water systems.

Water & Hygiene

Keegans have significant experience of completing Risk Assessments of hot & cold water systems to ensure compliance with the Approved Code of Practice, Legionnaires’ disease: The control of legionella bacteria in water systems (L8).

Inspection

Keegans will complete an assessment of the water systems, creating a schematic layout drawing of the system and associated equipment, and inspect all elements of the system to conclude whether the system is likely to create a risk from exposure to legionella. This would include inspection of the following elements:

Water Storage Tanks, distribution systems and outlets to assess for sources of nutrients such as rust, sludge, scale and organic matter.
Water Temperature Monitoring - cold and hot water supply.
Identification of dead legs and low turnover conditions which could encourage bacteria to multiply
Outlets where water droplets are produced e.g. show

HSE Guidance

The Risk Assessment report will detail the following as identified within current HSE guidance:

Management responsibilities, including the name of competent person and a description of your system.
Potential sources of risk.
Any controls in place to control risks.
Monitoring, inspection and maintenance procedures.
Records of the monitoring results, inspections and checks carried out.
Arrangements to review the risk assessment regularly.

Working across a wide range of sectors

Keegans work extensively in the public and private sectors on a wide variety of residential, education and health, regeneration, commercial and industrial sector projects.

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