Legionella grows quietly. The law expects you to look for it.
Legionnaires' disease is a potentially fatal pneumonia caught by inhaling water droplets carrying legionella bacteria. If you control premises where water is stored or used and droplets could be inhaled, ACoP L8 applies and you are the Duty Holder. The risk assessment is where compliance starts.
What we do
A systematic, evidence-based assessment to ACoP L8, HSG274 Parts 1 to 3 and BS 8580-1:2019. We review previous assessments and water hygiene records, inspect the plant and verify the asset inventory, assess system design and operation, and evaluate the management arrangements behind it: written schemes, responsibilities, training, monitoring and contractor performance. Physical defects and management gaps are both found, and both prioritised.
We assess every system capable of growing and spreading the bacteria: hot and cold water systems, evaporative cooling, adiabatic cooling, spa and hydrotherapy pools, fountains and water features, humidification systems, vehicle wash systems and other specialised plant. The risk sits where water rests between 20 and 45 degrees, where nutrients, biofilm, scale or stagnation build, and where aerosols can form.
Cooling towers and evaporative systems receive specialist treatment: structure and condition, drift eliminators, fill packs and distribution, dosing and bleed controls, chemical treatment regimes, sampling programmes, cleaning and disinfection records, notifications and registrations, and emergency procedures.
What you get
- Executive summary and legislative compliance review
- Survey findings with photographs
- Written scheme and management system review
- Cooling tower compliance review where applicable
- Risk ranking matrix
- A prioritised action plan separating immediate risk, compliance actions and long-term resilience
- A recommended review period
- Schematics and laboratory sampling where instructed
Why it matters
Most legionella prosecutions do not turn on the absence of an assessment. They turn on an assessment that identified the risk and a management system that never acted on it. Assessing the written scheme and the contractor performance alongside the plant is what closes that gap.
Why Vantify
Cooling towers and evaporative plant assessed by consultants who treat them as a specialism rather than another line on a checklist.
Scope and limitations
Sampling and laboratory analysis are included where instructed as part of the scope.
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