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New HSE interventions on Legionnaires' Disease

11 February 2013

HSEHSE recently completed a review of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks over the past ten years that reveals common failings in control, and a potential risk of further legionella outbreaks, such as those in Edinburgh and Stoke in 2012.

The review highlighted a range of failures e.g.:

  • departures from planned maintenance schedules (allowing plant conditions to get worse, and longer periods for problems to develop);
  • changes in the process (leading to changes in the risks, or rendering existing precautions ineffective);
  • staff/contractor changes (leading to a loss of knowledge); intermittent use of plant (resulting in inconsistent control measures)
  • unusual weather conditions (e.g. bacteria multiplying very fast in warm weather

Further information regarding 'precautions' is available on the HSE'S Legionella pages

New HSE interventions on Legionnaires' Disease was published on 11 February 2013 in categories Legionnaires Disease, Legionella on the Ai Solutions Blog.