Legionella Cooling Systems Operative (Live Virtual Classroom)
To understand and comply with Legionnaires’ disease: Technical Guidance Part1: The control of legionella bacteria in evaporative cooling Systems. For those with health & safety responsibilities, to help them comply with their legal duties.
Description
What Will Be Covered
- The NCTEC regulations and the legal requirement for compliance.
- The primary function of cooling towers and the under pinning scientific principal.
- Factors that impact upon the efficiency of the cooling tower to reject heat.
- Key parameters used to evaluate cooling tower operation, in particular the importance of establishing the correct cycles of concentration.
- Requirements to maintain the correct design flow rate and how it is monitored.
- Maintain operational efficiency, and possible remedial works.
- Installation of appropriate backflow protection.
- Categorisation of cooling towers.
- NCTEC regulations with regards to Adiabatic or Hybrid Systems.
- Materials used in cooling tower construction and their applications.
- Comprehend the primary treatment concerns and their impact on the system.
- Inspection, its frequency, and requirements.
- Methods used for biological monitoring.
- Water quality parameters to maintain operational efficiency.
- Scientific process used to measure the potential effectiveness of biocides.
- Chemical and Non-chemical methods of control.
- Safe system of work prior and during disinfection process
- Method for calculating the correct amount of Chlorine (Sodium Hypochlorite) in a given system, allowing for pH correction
- Disinfection of a cooling towers.
- Maintenance of records of control.