Legionella Operative Training Onsite

1 Day Onsite Training – £POA

Price includes City & Guilds Certification

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Legionella Operative Training Onsite

1 Day Onsite Training – £POA

Price includes City & Guilds Certification

Download Course Description
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Legionella Operative Training Onsite

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Course Prerequisites 

Learners who wish to attend this Legionella Technical Operative Training should have a good level of industry experience or will be required to provide an in-date certificate for Legionella Awareness (HXT-W01) or equivalent

Legionella Operative Training Onsite Overview

The Legionella Operative Virtual Training course equips individuals with essential skills for controlling and maintaining legionella in hot and cold water systems. Ideal for those with industry experience or prior Legionella Awareness training, it builds on foundational knowledge to advance technical capabilities.

Delivered on-site, our expert trainers provide cost-effective training tailored to multiple delegates, using familiar equipment and premises. Free quotes and tailored advice are available to meet your business training needs

Legionella Operative Training Course

Is This The Right Course For You?

Our Legionella Technical Operative Course is designed for staff performing routine, semiskilled tasks to manage legionella risks in hot and cold water systems. The course covers essential activities, including TMV servicing, cold water storage tank inspections, basic microbiological sampling, calorifier inspection and cleaning, and expansion vessel purging.

It’s ideal for maintenance personnel and Responsible or Deputy Responsible Persons seeking enhanced practical knowledge.

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Benefits of attending this hot and cold water systems course:

Our Legionella Operative Onsite Training Course provides comprehensive training for managing legionella risks in hot and cold water systems. The course focuses on three key areas:

  1. Controlling Legionella Risks: Learn about risk assessments, written schemes, identifying high-risk areas, and protocols for inspecting and monitoring water systems.
  2. Compliance with Water Systems: Gain skills in temperature monitoring, system flushing, TMV maintenance, calorifier drain purging, and cleaning/disinfecting fixtures like showers and spray taps.
  3. Addressing System Issues: Understand troubleshooting, emergency procedures, and system cleaning and disinfection.

This training equips delegates with practical skills for ongoing legionella management while ensuring compliance with safety standards.

Benefits for the employer

Our Legionella Technical Operative Training Course is designed to ensure compliance with the “L8 Fourth Edition” Approved Code of Practice and HSG 274 Technical Guidance for effective legionella management. Key benefits include:

  • Enhanced Compliance: Achieve full alignment with the L8 Code of Practice and HSG 274 for managing legionella risks.
  • Stronger Risk Management: Gain tools for better control of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems, ensuring health and safety.
  • Reduced Liability: Minimize legal, financial, and moral risks by preventing inadequate legionella management, avoiding penalties and prosecution.

This course equips delegates with practical skills to meet regulatory standards and maintain safe water systems.

Course Information

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  1. How legionella bacteria enter water systems and how we may contract legionnaires’ disease
  2. Understand legionella bacteria
  3. Legionella illnesses, symptoms and susceptibility
  4. Routes of transmission
  5. Understand pneumonia and legionella’s impact within the lung
  6. Conditions that legionella favour for proliferation
  7. Understand aerosol generation
  8. Basics behind ACOP L8 and HSG 274
  9. Importance of the management pathway
  10. Basics behind legionella risk assessment
  1. Importance of the written scheme
  2. Systems that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
  3. Inspection and monitoring of hot and cold water systems
  4. Method of temperature monitoring
  5. Different methods of control used in water systems
  6. Requirements for a compliant cold water storage cistern
  7. Method of flushing little used outlets
  8. Where the water regulations apply
  9. Method of purging a calorifier drain
  10. Method of cleaning, disinfecting and descaling showers and spray taps
  1. Emergency procedures when a system goes out of control
  2. Method of cleaning and disinfecting of systems
  3. Specific requirements for TMV’s
  4. Requirement for inspection and cleaning of calorifiers
  5. Requirement for flushing of expansion vessels
  • The legislation: HSE ACOP L8 and HSG274 part 2
  • The role and duties of the Responsible Person and Duty Holder
  • The compliance requirements, including: Written Scheme (Control Scheme)
  • Problem solving issues within the water systems
  • Emergency procedures if required
  • Cleaning & disinfection of systems
  • Control measures of hot & cold-water systems
  • Temperature monitoring
  • Flushing little used outlets
  • TMV maintenance & commissioning
  • Calorifier inspection and drain purging
  • Showers and spray tap cleaning, disinfection and descale

At the end of the Legionella training each delegate undertakes a multiple choice assessment consisting of 20 questions, with 15 correct answers achieving a pass grade (75%).

Where facilities permit, assessment is completed online to enable faster processing of results and certification.

Upon completing this Legionella Operative Training you will receive a City and Guilds Accredited Programme Certificate.

This will need to be renewed every 2 years.

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Longest running health, safety and compliance training provider to offer this unique training offer

As one of the leading health, safety and compliance training providers within the UK, HX Training have innovatively and successfully delivered this method of unique, online training to thousands of delegates.

Instead of using Zoom or Microsoft Teams, our live virtual classrooms involve a tried and tested method of non-practical training course delivery that represents the best alternative to classroom training. HX Training offers the only City and Guilds approved and accredited live virtual classroom courses within the UK. Additionally, our online training covers different levels of compliance, which are suitable for any type of business.

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LIVE Virtual Classroom

Live virtual classroom means the trainer offers a learner-centered approach, similarly to a classroom course, to ensure delegates’ educational needs are met. All of the online training provides a live trainer, ready to answer your questions throughout. In addition, the online training courses include: trainer explanation, a presentation, videos, questions and answer session, and finished with a multiple choice assessment.

As a user friendly, alternative approach to classroom training, delegates will finish our online training with refined skills that they can successfully apply to their place of work. Furthermore, virtual learning is both cost and time effective for both businesses and employees.

With our experience of 35 years in the sector, you can trust that we deliver courses of the best quality. Just see what our customers we have supplied training for and what our delegates have to say about HX Training.

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