Legionella Risk Management Training
Reduce compliance costs without compromising safety. Our legionella risk management training programme comprises four City & Guilds-assured and ILM-assured key modules.
Our Legionella Risk Management Training Modules
Reduce compliance costs without compromising safety. Our legionella risk management training programme comprises of 4 City & Guilds-assured and ILM-assured key modules, delivered through open courses:
General Awareness Training
Our General Awareness Training takes place over 1 day
Cost: £350+VAT
Responsible Persons Training - ILM assured
Our Responsible Persons Training takes place over 2 days and is ILM assured
Cost £775+VAT
Management and Control of Evaporative Cooling System Training
Our Management and Control of Evaporative Cooling System Training takes place over 1 day
Cost: £350+VAT
Responsible Person Refresher Training - ILM assured
Our Responsible Person Refresher Training takes place over 1 day
Cost: £350+VAT
Bespoke Training
Bespoke training available on request for larger groups, on-premises or to combine multiple modules.
Delivery Methods
- Our open training courses are located at one of our convenient city centre offices.
- We can come to you to deliver training. Please ensure you have suitable facilities including a projector or large screen to deliver a PowerPoint presentation.
- Although we prefer to deliver face to face, under certain circumstances we can deliver training via Microsoft Teams.
Certification
At the end of each training course, a 20-question online test will be issued which should be completed within 7 days. After successfully passing the test, City & Guilds will issue a digital badge and electronic certificate.
Gain essential practical skills to identify, control, and reduce the risk of legionella across your water systems – ensuring full alignment with health, safety, and legislative requirements.
Learn from highly experienced experts – all trainers are principal-level consultants with more than 15 years’ experience as independent specialists, bringing real-world insight to every session.
Benefit from four City & Guilds-assured and ILM-assured modules designed to equip facilities teams, building operators, and water safety leaders with the knowledge they need to say compliant.
Legionella Risk Management – General Awareness Training (City & Guilds Assured)
Duration
1 Day
Objectives
General awareness training for Legionella aims to ensure individuals understand the bacteria, its risks, and how to prevent infection by covering topics like how the bacteria spreads, legal responsibilities, risk assessment, control measures, and water hygiene. This training is essential for those who manage, monitor, or work around water systems to protect themselves and others from Legionnaires’ disease.
This module helps you understand:
- The legionella bacteria itself
- The history of legionnaires’ disease
- What legionnaires’ disease and legionellosis is
- Who is at risk
- How water systems become infected
- Law and guidance surrounding legionella
- About Legionella and water quality assessments
- Written schemes
- How to manage and control legionella
- What the favourable conditions for bacterial growth are
- Types of water outlets and how they provide a risk
- Planned preventative maintenance tasks (PPMs)
- Microbiological sampling
- The consequences of ineffective legionella risk management
Legionella Risk Management – Responsible Persons Training (ILM Assured)
Duration
2 days
Objectives
Our ILM-Assured Responsible Persons Training aims to provide detailed legionella training to owners and operators of hot and cold water, and other systems so they understand how to meet the demands of health and safety legislation (and so operate their water systems safely and within the law).
It also aims to help you gain an understanding of the management of risk and the degree of control necessary in the most common systems, and an outline of the requirements of the control of other systems, including commercial and industrial water systems (and where that information can be obtained).
After this course, you should be able to understand how to deal with the regulators, what to expect during an inspection, how to prepare for a visit from them, what powers they have and the types of enforcement they can take.
This module aims to help you understand:
Day 1
- Gain an understanding of legionella bacteria
- The history of legionnaires’ disease
- What legionnaires’ disease and legionellosis is
- Who is at risk
- How water systems become infected
- Law and guidance surrounding legionella
- Written schemes
- How to manage and control legionella
- What the favourable conditions for bacterial growth are
- Types of water outlets and how they provide a risk
- Planned preventative maintenance tasks (PPMs)
- Options for biocides and Water Treatment
- The consequences of ineffective legionella risk management
Day 2
- The law and guidance
- Roles and responsibilities and lines of communication
- About Legionella and water quality risk assessments
- Water safety Groups & Water Safety Plans
- Logbooks and the key documentation required to demonstrate maintenance of a water system
- Reviewing microbiological testing certificates
- The role of the Authorising Engineer
- Capital Projects
- Outbreak investigations, the consequences of ineffective legionella risk management, and case studies
Legionella Risk Management – Management of Evaporative Cooling System Training (C&G Assured)
Duration
1 Day
Objectives
Ensure you understand how to meet the demands of health and safety legislation, and operate their cooling water systems safely and within the law.
Ensure you gain an understanding of the management of risk and degree of control necessary in the common cooling water systems, and an outline of the requirements of the control of other systems, including commercial and industrial water systems (and where that information can be obtained).
Ensure you understand how to deal with the regulators, what to expect during an inspection, and how to prepare for a visit, what powers they have and the types of enforcement they can take.
This module aims to help you understand:
- The legionella bacteria itself
- The history of legionnaires’ disease
- What legionnaires’ disease and legionellosis is
- Who is at risk
- How water systems become infected
- Law and guidance surrounding legionella
- Written schemes
- Cooling tower design and operation
- The cleaning and disinfection process
- How effective water treatment works
- Microbiological control
- Operational control
- Outbreak investigations, the consequences of ineffective legionella risk management and case studies
Legionella Risk Management – Refresher Responsible Persons Training (ILM Assured)
Duration
1 Day
Objectives
Ensure you understand how to meet the demands of health and safety legislation (and so operate their water systems safely and within the law).
To ensure you gain an understanding of the management of risk and the degree of control necessary in the most common systems, and an outline of the requirements of the control of other systems, including commercial and industrial water systems, and where that information can be obtained.
To ensure you understand how to deal with the regulators, what to expect during an inspection, how to prepare for a visit from them, what powers they have and the types of enforcement they can take.
This module aims to help you understand:
- The legionella bacteria itself
- The history of legionnaires’ disease
- What legionnaires’ disease and legionellosis is
- Who is at risk
- How water systems become infected
- The law and guidance
- Written schemes
- How to manage and control legionella
- What the favourable conditions for bacterial growth are
- Types of water outlets and how they provide a risk
- Planned preventative maintenance tasks (PPMs)
- Options for biocides and Water Treatment
- The consequences of ineffective legionella risk management
- The law and guidance
- Roles and responsibilities and lines of communication
- About Legionella and water quality risk assessments
- How logbooks & key documentation are required to demonstrate maintenance of a water system
- Water safety groups & Water Safety Plans
- How to review microbiological testing certificates
- The role of the Authorising Engineer
- Capital Projects
- Outbreak investigations, the consequences of ineffective legionella risk management and case studies