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Legionella Risk Assessment - In the
UK the Health and Safety Executives ACoP L8 - Approved
Code of Practice and Guidance document titled "Legionnaires'
disease: The control of legionella bacteria in water
systems" sets out guidance for Legionella
risk assessment procedures as follows:
23 - A suitable and sufficient assessment is required
to identify and assess the risk of exposure to legionella
bacteria from work activities and water systems on the
premises and any necessary precautionary measures. The
assessment is carried out by or on behalf of:
(a) the employer, where the
risk from their undertaking is to their employees
or to others; or
(b) a self-employed person,
where there is a risk from their undertaking to themselves
or to others; or
(c) the person who is in control
of premises or systems in connection with work where
the risk is present from systems in the building (eg
where a building is let to tenants but the landlord
retains responsibility for its maintenance).
24 - In conducting the assessment, the person on whom
the statutory duty falls is required to have access
to competent help to assess the risks of exposure to
legionella bacteria in the water systems present in
the premises and the necessary control measures.
25 - The assessment should include identification and
evaluation of potential sources of risk and:
(a) the particular means by
which exposure to legionella bacteria is to be prevented;
or
(b) if prevention is not reasonably
practicable, the particular means by which the risk
from exposure to legionella bacteria is to be controlled.
26 - Where the assessment demonstrates that there is
no reasonably foreseeable risk or that risks are insignificant
and unlikely to increase, no further assessment or measures
are necessary. However, should the situation change,
the assessment needs to be reviewed and any necessary
changes implemented.
27 - The assessment needs to be reviewed regularly and,
in any case, whenever there is reason to believe that
the original assessment may no longer be valid.
Parts of this document © Crown
Copyright - extracted from the HSC Approved Code of
Practice and Guidance document l8 titled "Legionnaires'
disease: The control of legionella bacteria in water
systems.
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