What legal obligations do duty holders need to meet for Water Hygiene and Legionella risk assessments?

Water hygieneGary Logan, Plumbing & Water Hygiene Contracts Manager, HLA Services Ltd.

What sort of Water Hygiene services does HLA services provide?
At HLA Services we can offer fully compliant Water Hygiene services.

What legal obligations do duty holders need to meet in terms of Water Hygiene?
If you’re a duty holder, it is your legal obligation to carry out a Legionella risk assessment.
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) provide a framework of actions designed to assess, prevent or control the risk from bacteria like Legionella and take suitable precautions.

We provide customers with ACOP L8 and BS 8580:2010 workplace compliance and documentation.

Are there any specific industry sectors HLA provide Water Hygiene services to?
We provide full Water Hygiene services to a wide variety of customers from Healthcare, factories and manufacturing, to the automotive industry, to education and food and drink manufacturing.

If you could use one sentence to describe what it’s like to be part of the HLA Services team what would you say?
It’s good to work for a company that has technical expertise in-house and backup across all departments.

Sunderland FC or Newcastle United?
Newcastle.