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Water Monitoring Limited offers water hygiene services and Legionella risk assessments at competitive prices to customers across Braintree. Get in touch with our friendly staff today for a free estimate.

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At Water Monitoring LTD, we specialise in providing reliable water hygiene services and Legionella risk assessments to ensure the safety and compliance of your water systems. With our expertise, we help businesses and homeowners maintain clean, safe water, preventing contamination and meeting UK regulations.

Whether you need regular water testing, system disinfection, or risk management solutions, our dedicated team is here to assist you. Get in touch today for professional advice and a free estimate.

Supporting you with compliance

Water Monitoring Limited offers water hygiene services and Legionella Risk Assessments at competitive prices to customers across London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties, within a wide range of sectors including healthcare, education, residential and hospitality. Get in touch with our friendly staff today for a free
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We provide the following services:

Water Hygiene Services

Water hygiene services ensure the safe management, treatment, and monitoring of water systems.

Temperature monitoring

Monthly routine monitoring of sentinel points and outlets as required.
Legionella risk assessments
To identify risk levels and provide advice on the management of the water systems.
Coldwater storage tanks
Refurbishments, renewals, relining, monitoring, inspection, maintenance, cleaning and disinfection.

Calorifier

Inspections, descaling, cleaning and disinfection.
Chlorination and disinfection
Including building water services, following works or new installations and incoming water mains injections.
Water samples
Collected by our trained staff and analysed by an independent UKAS-approved laboratory.
Emergency disinfection
Disinfections can be arranged at short notice following adverse water sampling results.

Serving London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties,

Water Monitoring Limited provide all aspects of on-site water hygiene services, support and advice to companies and individuals to assist them in complying with health and safety legislation in relation to Legionnaires’ disease – The control of Legionella bacteria in water systems; The Approved Code of Practice (L8) and technical guidance HSG274 Part 2. Based in Essex, we cater to customers across London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties.
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Water Hygiene Services

At Water Monitoring Limited, we offer a complete range of water hygiene services and
Legionella Risk Assessments. Whether you need an inspection of your hot water cylinder, your cold water storage tank, require water samples to be collected or undertake temperature monitoring we can help. We are members of the Legionella Control Association and adhere to their code of conduct. Our registration certificate can be viewed here.

For further information on your obligations please see our documents Advice on Legionnaires Disease and Premises Advice. Please see document Legal & LCA Information for Duty Holders & Responsible Persons to view your responsibilities under the Law with regard to legionella control, as explained to you, and information we are required to advise you of as members of the Legionella Control Association. 

Based in Essex, we cater to customers across London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, the Home Counties and the surrounding areas. Please call us for a free quote on temperature monitoring or for more information about the services we can offer your organisation. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

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LEGIONELLA RISK ASSESSMENT

Legionella Risk Assessment
Do you require a risk assessment to help manage the risk from Legionella? Contact Water
Monitoring Limited today.
Requirement to have a risk assessment


ABOUT
Carrying out a legionella risk assessment and ensuring it remains up to date is required under the health and safety legislation and is a key duty when managing the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria. The requirement to have a risk assessment covers the person in control of the premises or responsible for the water systems in their premises. They have a legal duty to ensure that the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria is properly assessed and controlled. This duty extends to residents, guests, tenants and customers. It also covers those who have, to any extent, control of premises for work-related activities or the water systems in the building have a responsibility to those who are not their employees, but who use those premises.


Where a property has a number of occupiers the management contract should clearly specify who has responsibility for maintenance and safety checks, including managing the risk from legionella. Where there is no contract or agreement in place or it does not specify who has responsibility, the duty is placed on whoever has control of the premises and the water system in it, and in most cases, this will be the landlord themselves.


In estate management, it is increasingly common for there to be several duty holders in one building. In such cases, duties may arise where persons or organisations have clear
responsibility through an explicit agreement, such as a contract or tenancy agreement.


The extent of the duty will depend on the nature of that agreement. For example, in a building occupied by one leaseholder, the agreement may be for the owner or leaseholder to take on the full duty for the whole building or to share the duty. In a multi-occupancy building, the agreement may be that the owner takes on the full duty for the whole building. Alternatively, it might be that the duty is shared where, e.g. the owner takes responsibility for the common parts while the leaseholders take responsibility for the parts they occupy. In other cases, there may be an agreement to pass the responsibilities to a managing agent. Where a managing agent is used, the management contract should clearly specify who has responsibility for maintenance and safety checks, including managing the risk from legionella. Where there is no contract or tenancy agreement in place or it does not specify who has responsibility, the duty is placed on whoever has control of the premises, or part of the premises.


All systems require a risk assessment, however not all systems will require elaborate control
measures. A simple risk assessment may show that the risks are low and being properly
managed to comply with the law (e.g. small domestic-type water systems). In such cases,
further action may not be needed but it is important to review regularly in case of any
changes and specifically if there is reason to suspect it is no longer valid. (para 25)
The ACoP states that a suitable and sufficient assessment must be carried out to identify
and assess the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria from work activities and water systems
on the premises and any precautionary measures needed. The duty holder is responsible for
ensuring the risk assessment is carried out. The duty holder is either: the employer, where the risk from their undertaking is to their employees or others; or a self-employed person, where there is a risk from their undertaking to themselves or others; or the person who is in control of premises or systems in connection with work, where there is a risk from systems in the building, e.g. where a building is let to tenants, but
the landlord keeps responsibility for its maintenance. (Para 28)


The duty holder must ensure that the person who carries out the risk assessment and
provides advice on prevention and control of exposure is competent to do so. (Para 29).
The risk assessment must be regularly reviewed and specifically when there is reason to
believe that the original assessment is no longer valid. The management and communication
procedures should also be updated as appropriate. (Para 32)
The ACoP also states that before any formal health and safety management system for the
water systems is implemented, the duty holder should carry out a risk assessment to identify
the possible risks. (Para 33) The assessment also enables the duty holder to show they
have considered all the relevant factors and the steps needed to prevent or control the risk.
(Para 34)
Although the revised ACoP no longer states a review date, best practice would seem to be
that the 2 year previously noted is being used as “regular”. However, if anything significant
changes then the assessment should be reviewed sooner – this includes changes to the
water systems and the persons in control.
CARRYING OUT THE RISK ASSESSMENT
The risk assessment should consider all aspects of the operation of the hot and cold water
systems and while there will be common factors; the individual characteristics of each
system should be taken into account. Site personnel who manage the systems to determine
current operational practice should be consulted. The commissioning, decommissioning,
periods of operation, maintenance, treatment and subsequent management of each

individual aspect of operation will require review and validation to ensure site procedures are
effective.

FAILURE TO COMPLY
The ACoP has been approved by the Health and Safety Executive, with the consent of the
Secretary of State. It gives practical advice on how to comply with the law. If the advice it
gives is followed then you will be doing enough to comply with the law in respect of those
specific matters on which the Code gives advice. Alternative methods to those set out in the
Code may be used in order to comply with the law. However, the Code has a special legal
status. If you are prosecuted for breach of health and safety law, and it is proved that you did
not follow the relevant provisions of the Code, you will need to show that you have complied
with the law in some other way or a Court will find you at fault.
WHAT NEXT?
We would advise that a water hygiene risk assessment is carried out if there is not a current
one in place for the site (within 2 years). If there is a document in place, review the contents
to ensure that the written scheme and control measures are being maintained and
monitoring is within the recommended guidelines. Review the current water hygiene
programme if required. Confirm that the management structure and communication
pathways are current and up-to-date. Confirm that there is a current schematic plan. Ensure
that documents relating to the checks being carried out are stored and kept for 5 years.
FURTHER READING
Legionnaires’ disease: The control of legionella bacteria in water systems. Approved Code of
Practice L8 (Fourth edition) HSE Books 2013
LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE
Legionellosis is a collective term for diseases caused by Legionella bacteria including the
most serious Legionnaires’ disease, as well as the similar but less serious conditions of
Pontiac fever and Lochgoilhead fever. Legionnaires’ disease is a potentially fatal form of
pneumonia and everyone is susceptible to infection. The risk increases with age, but some
people are at higher risk, including the very young, people over 45, people already suffering
from an illness (e.g. especially cancer, chronic respiratory or kidney disease, lung and heart
disease or diabetes), people with an impaired immune system, smokers and heavy drinkers.
Men also appear to be more susceptible than women however, today women are not far
behind.


The bacterium Legionella Pneumophila and related bacteria are common in natural water
sources such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs, but usually in low numbers. They may also be
found in purpose-built systems, such as cooling towers, hot and cold water systems and spa
pools etc. If conditions are favourable, the bacteria may multiply, increasing the risk of
Legionnaires’ disease, and it is therefore important to control the risk by introducing
appropriate measures. Outbreaks of the illness occur from exposure to Legionella growing in
purpose-built systems where water is maintained at a temperature high enough to
encourage growth.

Legionnaires’ disease is normally contracted by inhaling small droplets of water (aerosols),
suspended in the air, containing the bacteria. It is important to control the risk by introducing
measures which do not allow proliferation of the organisms in the water system and reduce,
so far as is reasonably practicable, exposure to water droplets and aerosol. There is an
incubation period of 2-10 days before symptoms ranging from a mild influenza-like infection
to full-blown pneumonia. In the cases of Pontiac fever and Lochgoilhead fever, the
symptoms are a short fever without signs of pneumonia. In approximately 12% of reported
cases, infection with Legionella bacteria is fatal. The level of fatalities is significantly higher
among risk groups.


PROLIFERATION OF LEGIONELLA
Legionella bacteria occur naturally (in low numbers) in most natural sources of water and
can survive at temperatures ranging from 6°C to 60°C. They can remain dormant at low
temperatures and multiply readily at temperatures between 20°C and 45°C, (which is
suitable for growth), providing they have a suitable supply of nutrients. Legionella bacteria
are at their most virulent at 37°C. Legionella bacteria can obtain the nutrients that they need
to multiply from a wide variety of sources, including algae, amoebae, sediment, sludge,
scale, corrosion by-products, biofilms and other bacteria.
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COLD WATER STORAGE TANK

Cold water storage tanks
Are you looking for a business that offers cold water storage tank inspections? Look no
further than Water Monitoring Limited.

Let us check your cold water tank’s condition inside and out
If your property has a cold water storage tank then HSG274 Part 2 recommends that a
minimum an annual inspection is undertaken. Cold water storage tanks must be compliant
with the current bylaws, with suitable boarding and safe access to allow inspections and
maintenance to be completed. The lid should be non-organic with a suitable lid vent in place,
it should also be closely fitted and in good condition. Insect and vermin screens should be
fitted on the overflow and warning pipes and any vents must be intact. The tank and all
associated pipework should have sufficient thermal insulation so that it is protected from
extreme temperatures. UV protection should be considered if the tank is located outside.
The tank area must have suitable ventilation to maintain air flow, the inlet valve must be
compliant and in good working order.


Water Monitoring Limited will carry out inspections of cold water storage tanks and provide a
report with photographic evidence of external and internal conditions with recommendations
on any remedial works required.


We are based in London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the
Home Counties – contact us today for an estimate and to schedule an appointment.


Our services include:
• Visually inspecting the tank
• Checking if the lid is closely fitted
• Checking if the insect and vermin screens are in good condition
• Checking for signs of corrosion
• Cleaning and disinfecting the tank
Reduce the risk of exposure to Legionella
Minimum Annual inspections of cold water storage tanks will help you reduce the risk of
Legionella. If you own a commercial or residential property, then it is your responsibility to
make sure that an annual inspection is performed for your property. A check is also required
in the summer months. Get in touch with us today for a free estimate.
For an inspection of your water storage tank in London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk,
Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties, contact us today

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CALORIFIER HOT WATER CYLINDER

Calorifier / Hot Water Cylinders

Do you need to carry out an inspection of your Calorifier / Hot Water Cylinder?

You have come to the right place. Contact us at Water Monitoring Limited today.
We can carry out unobtrusive internal inspections of calorifiers to assess internal condition
and complete acid de-scaling, cleaning and disinfection as required. Our experienced
operatives can complete annual internal inspections and blow-down services as
recommended by HSG274 Part 2. Additionally, we can complete de-scaling, cleaning and
disinfection of hot water cylinders if the inspection indicates that this is required.
With a wealth of experience in the water hygiene industry, we can carry out inspections of
calorifiers for both domestic and commercial properties. Based in Essex we serve customers
across London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home
Counties.


Contact Water Monitoring Limited
for a Calorifier / Hot Water Inspection in London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk,
Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties.

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WATER HYGIENE SERVICES

Water Hygiene Services London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties. Do you require water hygiene services for your property? Contact Water Monitoring Limited today.

Quality water treatment services
Do you have problems with the water quality in your home? Why not get in touch with the professionals at Water Monitoring Limited for high-quality water hygiene services? We offer specialist services relating to monitoring the safety of water systems. We always provide quality consultancy and testing services in a professional and personable manner. We are based in Essex and cater to customers across London, Essex, Hertfordshire Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the Home Counties.

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for water hygiene services at affordable prices by experienced contractors

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