WATER HYGIENE SERVICES
What Does Water Hygiene Involve?
This could be the implementation and monitoring of written control schemes after a risk assessment or general upgrade/ improvement of your water system. We can assist you in not only providing tried and tested methods of monitoring, cleaning, disinfection and refurbishment of water systems, but also in designing innovative engineered control measures to comply with relevant legal requirements.
What Are Your Legal Requirements?
Under COSHH Regulations 2002 and ACoP L8, employers have legal duty to prepare and manage a scheme for maintaining safe water quality. Paragraph 12 of ACoP L8 states, “As well as requiring risk assessments, they (Health &Safety at Work Act 1974 & Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999) also require employers to have access to competent help in applying the provisions of health and safety law”.
HSG274 is a three-part technical guidance document which further details the control measures that are required to prevent the growth of Legionella bacteria in cooling water systems, domestic hot and cold water systems as well as other risk systems. Other legal statutes regarding water storage and supply include The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 and The Water Byelaws 2000 (Scotland). Supporting guidelines are BS 8558.
Specification for design, installation, testing and maintenance of services supplying water for domestic use within buildings and their curtilages , HTM 2040 NHS Estates 1993 The control of Legionella in health care premises , BS 4485 Water Cooling Towers etc.
How Can We Help?
Following a risk assessment of water systems, Total Environmental Limited is able to physically undertake remedial action required in order to comply with recommendations stated in ACoP L8.Typical water hygiene activities we under take include but not limited to:
- Descaling/Cleaning/Disinfection of Storage tanks, Cooling tower, Showerhead, Calorifier etc.
- Hot and Cold Water System Disinfection
- Tank Refurbishments and Upgrades to ‘Byelaw 30’
- Water Quality Testing
For further information please contact us on 0151 257 9302 or via email at info@tecompliance.co.uk
Achieve Total Compliance
Get in touch with us today to discuss all your Legionella, water hygiene and water safety requirements.
Holiday Inn Nottingham have used Total Environmental Compliance (TEC) for all our water hygiene and Legionella compliance for over five years. They carry out Legionella risk assessments, Legionella sampling, and annual cold storage water tank clean and chlorination’s, as well as cleaning our ice machines on site.
TEC have helped us maintain compliance over the years via remedial works carried out on site and consultancy to our on-site maintenance team. Our main point of contact Mike Darby is extremely knowledgeable and responds to all queries promptly.
The team are very reliable, competitively priced and professional.
I would thoroughly recommend Total Environmental Compliance for any water hygiene and Legionella compliance related services.
- David Clark, General Manager, Holiday Inn Nottingham.
