Legionella Awareness: Keep Water Moving, Hot and Cold
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Understand where legionella grows, carry out and record simple checks, flush little-used outlets, and act on readings that are out of range.
- Assign to
- Managers, caretakers and staff responsible for water systems in workplaces, gyms, schools and accommodation
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Understand where and why legionella grows.
- Carry out and record simple temperature checks.
- Flush little-used outlets at least weekly.
- Act the same day on readings out of range.
The course
- 01What legionella is
- 02The checks
- 03Acting on it
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite the water log”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “The danger zone” and “From reading to fix”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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