Legionella Awareness (E-Learning)
Designed for persons with MINIMAL exposure to Legionella control. Please note that the City and Guilds certificate received will specify that this course is for housekeeping and cleaning staff.
Description
- 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
- Know conditions that Legionella favour for proliferation
- Understand aerosol generation
- The basics behind the ACOP L8 and HSG 274
- The importance of management pathway
- Know the basics behind a Legionella Risk Assessment
- The importance of the written scheme
- Know the systems that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
- Inspection and monitoring of hot and cold water systems