Legionella Awareness Virtual Training Course

This Legionella Awareness Training course is a City & Guild Accredited Programme. It has been designed for people who work with hot and cold water systems and need an introduction to Legionella, Legionnaires Disease and other risk systems following HSE’s ACoP L8 and HSG274 guidance. It is ideal for landlords, business premise owners, facilities managers or anyone appointed to look after the safe storage of hot and cold water systems. This Legionella Awareness Training isn’t insufficient for those appointed as responsible persons or duty holders. Delegates looking for more advanced courses can find them here: Legionella Responsible Person Training and Legionella Responsible Person with Cooling Towers.

This legionella awareness course is delivered as a Live Virtual Classroom, using our dedicated online training platform. Cover all the required training in a classroom class without the travel. Our expert trainers are delivered live and can answer any questions via the interactive chat panel. Virtual courses are normally covered in half a day, perfect for delegates who can’t commit to a whole day for training. All Virtual courses still receive a City & Guilds Accredited Programme Certificate.

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Legionella Awareness Training Aims:

This City & Guilds Accredited Programme, Legionella Awareness training course will cover the following learning points so that the delegate will leave a good understanding of the subject.

• Understanding Legionella Bacteria, how legionella bacteria enter water systems, and how we may contract Legionnaires Disease
• Illnesses from Legionella Bacteria, the symptoms and susceptibility
• The routes of transmission
• Understanding pneumonia and Legionella’s effects impact on the lungs
• Understand conditions that Legionella Bacteria favour for proliferation
• Gain an understanding of aerosol generation
• The basics of ACoP L8 and HSG274
• The importance of management pathway
• Gain knowledge of the basics behind a Legionella Risk Assessment
• The importance of a written scheme
• Know the systems that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
• Inspection of monitoring of hot and cold water systems

What is Legionnaires Disease?

Legionnaires’ Disease is a serious form of lung infection, ranging from severe pneumonia to the milder Pontiac fever, caused by the waterborne bacteria Legionella. The bacteria can spread easily within man-made water systems, such as cooling towers, pipes, spa pools, and hot and cold water systems.

When the conditions are right, especially at certain temperatures, Legionella bacteria can multiply rapidly. They are easily transmitted through airborne droplets (aerosols), making inhalation of these contaminated droplets a common route of infection. However, Legionnaires’ Disease is not contagious and cannot be transmitted between people.

To effectively manage the risks and maintain safe water systems, undertaking a Legionella Training course with Hydro-X can help you gain the necessary skills and knowledge to become a competent person responsible for minimizing the risk of Legionnaires’ Disease.