Risk Assessment
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Consultants have acquired extensive knowledge and skills through study and practice over years of experience
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Practical Advice & Solutions
Provide our clients with practicable advice & solutions to help improve their water systems
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Legionella Risk Assessment
It’s a Legal Duty to carry out a Legionella Risk Assessment. Waterman Compliance Services can help you to assess and manage these risks and ensure that you comply with all legal requirements. Our Legionella Risk Assessments:
- Identify & assess all potential Legionella risks
- Cover all remedial & management issues
- Provide practicable recommendations to help you manage your water systems
- Remedial actions detail all site-specifics (locations, pipe sizes etc.)
- Each recommendation will have a corresponding picture beside it that identifies the issue for ease of understanding
- Comply with all current regulations & guidelines, including L8 (Fourth edition), HSG274 & BS 8580-1:2019
Water Hygiene Risk Assessment
In addition to our Legionella Risk Assessment, our Water Hygiene Risk Assessment covers all water hygiene risks. This includes:
- Legionella risks
- Pseudomonas Aeroginosa risks
- Backflow risks
- Cross Contamination risks
- Other Waterborne Pathogens
We can also provide Risk Assessments that comply with Health Technical Memorandum HTM 04-01.
Our Risk Assessments
All of our Risk Assessments are:
- Independent
- Site Specific
- Detailed
- User Friendly
- High Quality Standard
We can carry out Risk Assessments on all types of water systems such as:
- Hot & Cold Water Systems
- Cooling Towers
- Evaporative Condensers
- Industrial Effluent Treatment Plants
- Vehicle Washers
- Process Systems
Complete System Review
Identify
Risks created by incorrect:
- Design
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Management Control
Advise
How to rectify these issues:
- Practicably
- Reliably
- Efficiently
- Effectively
Audit
How to review the controls:
- Implementation
- Monitoring
- Rectifications
- Signing Off
Our Legionella Risk Assessment Process
Engagement With Client
Waterman Compliance Services will organise a suitable date & time to carry out the Risk Assessment. Once agreed an experienced qualified Consultant will attend site and carry out a fully detailed compliant Risk Assessment and discuss current issues and solutions, including money & energy saving ideas.
Undertake Site Survey Assessement
City and Guilds trained Legionella Risk Assessors / Consultants will undertake a detailed site survey of all water associated assets, operating the Waterman online Risk Assessment Software (Watermanage).
Watermanage is an internet based risk assessment tool providing each client with a document that will assist them in complying with appropriate legislative requirements and best practice techniques to ACoP L8 (Fourth edition), HSG274, BS 8580-1:2019, HTM 04-01 etc.
The Consultant will:
- Identify the quality of the supply water
- Carry out an examination of the hot & cold water systems (including tanks) for configuration, flow pattern, protection against contamination, materials of construction, condition, temperature, size in comparison to water consumption and cleanliness or contamination
- Identify population susceptibility
- Review management control structure, that includes identification of roles and responsibilities and the competence of those associated with risk management, including training records
- Prior to leaving site, the Consultant will discuss findings with the appropriate personnel, including issues identified and practicable / reasonable solutions
Recommendations
The Risk Assessment report will include practicable recommendations of remedial actions for controlling legionella and other waterborne pathogens and identify who will undertake the actions.
These remedial actions will detail all specifics (locations, pipe sizes etc.) to help the responsible person rectify the issues efficiently and effectively. Each remedial recommendation will have a corresponding picture beside it that identifies the issue for ease of reading.
Management personnel, structure and processes will be reviewed and any recommendations made will be listed in simple bullet point format with all relevant details listed, for ease of reading.
Actions will be prioritised with risk ratings and a review date set for determining completion of each task.
Risk Assessment Report
The Risk Assessment report will include:
- Executive Summary
- Water System information
- Risk evaluation
- Photographic evidence of all major assets
- Asset Register all associated plant, pumps, strainers and other relevant items
- Management Structure information
- Remedial & Cyclical Recommendations
- Temperature Regime
- Schematic Drawings if requested, including Auto CAD
- Remedial work recommendations
- Legionella & microbiological analysis (where appropriate)
Schematics
Our risk assessments can include highly detailed schematics that show all parts of the systems, including isolation valves, strainers etc.These schematics can be CAD format or basic line drawings.
We can review and edit the As- Fitted/Built Drawings for water systems or create new ones if required.