Legionella Operative Virtual Training Course
1/2 Day Live Virtual Classroom – £205
Price includes City & Guilds Certification
Legionella Operative Virtual Training
1/2 Day Live Virtual Classroom – £205
Price includes City & Guilds Certification
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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 Virtual Training Overview
The Legionella Operative Virtual Training course is designed for individuals looking to gain essential skills for effective legionella control and maintenance in hot and cold water systems. This training is particularly suited for those with a solid foundation of industry experience or those who have completed a recognized Legionella Awareness Course, providing a strong basis for advancing their technical capabilities in Legionella management.
Our Legionella Operative Virtual Training course is delivered virtually through our specialised live web conference platform, enabling delegates to engage directly with expert trainers for real-time feedback and answers. Virtual training offers a convenient solution for individuals unable to travel to our training centres and allows companies to train groups of delegates simultaneously. We can also arrange dedicated virtual sessions for groups. For more information, please reach out to our knowledgeable support staff through our contact form.
Is This The Right Course For You?
Our Legionella Technical Operative Course is tailored for staff tasked with routine, semiskilled work to manage legionella risks in hot and cold water systems. This course covers essential tasks such as:
- Thermostatic Mixing Valve (TMV) servicing
- Cold water storage tank inspections
- Basic microbiological sampling
- Inspection and cleaning of calorifiers
- Purging of expansion vessels
Ideal candidates include maintenance personnel and designated Responsible or Deputy Responsible Persons seeking deeper practical knowledge.
Legionella Training Enquiry
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Benefits of attending this hot and cold water systems course:
Our Legionella Technical Virtual Operative Course provides in-depth training for managing legionella risks in hot and cold water systems, covering essential areas such as:
1. Controlling Legionella Risks in Water Systems
- Introduction to the Risk Assessment: Understanding its role in effective legionella management.
- The Written Scheme: Importance and role in compliance and safety.
- Identifying High-Risk Areas: Recognizing areas with foreseeable legionella risks.
- Inspection & Monitoring: Key protocols for hot and cold water systems.
2. Compliance with Water Systems
- Temperature Monitoring: Best practices for compliance.
- System Flushing: Ensuring water safety through routine flushing.
- TMV Maintenance & Commissioning: Proper procedures for thermostatic mixing valves.
- Calorifier Drain Purging: Steps for safe and compliant drain purging.
- Cleaning, Disinfection, and Descaling: Procedures for showers, spray taps, and similar fixtures.
3. Addressing System Issues
- Troubleshooting System Problems: Identifying and resolving water system issues.
- Emergency Procedures: Steps for unexpected legionella incidents.
- System Cleaning & Disinfection: Comprehensive guidelines for maintaining system hygiene.
This course equips delegates with the skills needed for effective, ongoing legionella management and ensures compliance with safety standards.
Benefits for the employer
Our Legionella Technical Virtual Operative 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: Full alignment with the L8 Code of Practice and HSG 274 for managing legionella risks.
- Stronger Risk Management: More effective control of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems to safeguard health.
- Reduced Liability: Lowered risk of moral, legal, and financial repercussions, helping prevent prosecution and penalties for inadequate legionella management.
This course provides practical skills and insights to meet regulatory standards and ensure safe water systems management.
Course Information
- How legionella bacteria enter water systems and how we may contract legionnaires’ disease
- Understand legionella bacteria
- Legionella illnesses, symptoms and susceptibility
- Routes of transmission
- Understand pneumonia and legionella’s impact within the lung
- Conditions that legionella favour for proliferation
- Understand aerosol generation
- Basics behind ACOP L8 and HSG 274
- Importance of the management pathway
- Basics behind legionella risk assessment
- Importance of the written scheme
- Systems that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
- Inspection and monitoring of hot and cold water systems
- Method of temperature monitoring
- Different methods of control used in water systems
- Requirements for a compliant cold water storage cistern
- Method of flushing little used outlets
- Where the water regulations apply
- Method of purging a calorifier drain
- Method of cleaning, disinfecting and descaling showers and spray taps
- Emergency procedures when a system goes out of control
- Method of cleaning and disinfecting of systems
- Specific requirements for TMV’s
- Requirement for inspection and cleaning of calorifiers
- 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.
