Approved Code of Practice and guidance on regulations (L8) states<\/p>\n
\u201cA suitable and sufficient assessment must be carried out to identify and assess the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria from work activities and water systems on the premises and any precautionary measures needed. The dutyholder is responsible for ensuring the risk assessment is carried out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Also the Technical Document HSG274 Part 2: The control of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems states that:-<\/p>\n \u201cCarrying out a legionella risk assessment and ensuring it remains up to date is required under health and safety law and is a key duty when managing the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria. In conducting the assessment, the dutyholder must appoint a competent person or persons, known as the responsible person(s), to help them meet their health and safety duties, ie take responsibility for managing the control scheme. If the necessary competence, knowledge and expertise does not exist, there may be a need to appoint someone externally.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Approved code of practice (L8) and The Technical Document HSG274 Part 2: The control of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems are aimed at dutyholders, including employers, those in control of premises and those with health and safety responsibilities for others, to help them comply with their legal duties in relation to legionella. These include identifying and assessing sources of risk, preparing a scheme to prevent or control risk, implementing, managing and monitoring precautions, keeping records of precautions and appointing a manager to be responsible for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Approved Code of Practice and guidance on regulations (L8) states \u201cA suitable and sufficient assessment must be carried out to identify and assess the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria from work activities and water systems on the premises and any precautionary measures needed. The dutyholder is responsible for ensuring the risk assessment is carried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pem-legionella.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}