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Legionella control duties for landlords?
On 14/03/2015 13:14, wrote:
On Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:00:31 UTC, nemo wrote:
We're told that we need to have our rental property inspected to comply
with H&SE requirements and that it will cost £81 every two years for the
privilege.
Who is telling you this?
A managing agent with a kickback arrangement with a friendly plumber, perhaps?
Here's what the H&SE advises:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/what-you-must-do.htm
Yes, if you have any cooling towers in your house and the H&SAWA applies.
The following will probably apply to some degree on the radiator circuit:
- the water temperature in all or some parts of the system is between 20-45 °C
- water is stored or re-circulated as part of your system
- there are sources of nutrients such as rust, sludge, scale, organic matter and biofilms
- the conditions are likely to encourage bacteria to multiply
Your risk assessment and action would be:
- use appropriate system cleaner/inhibitor on the primary circuit
- system is closed and any water loss / aerosolisation could normally only occur:
- when draining the system down
- when bleeding a radiator
- cover the bleed valve with a cloth to capture any water expressed
all of which you would do anyway.
If the managing agent is inspecting the property already then H&S should be part of that.
Owain
Yes, it's the managing agent telling us:
"...the duty to provide a Risk Assessment for water now falls on
landlords as legislation, just like a Gas Safety Certificate and PAT
tests. This is to ensure that landlords are showing a 'duty of care'."
Funny that legionella inspection isn't mentioned he
https://www.gov.uk/renting-out-a-property/landlord-responsibilities
The agent has been on a training course[1], been awarded a certificate
and is now offering to do inspections himself. I don't think we'll be
availing ourselves of his kind offer.
[1] http://isac.co.uk/legionmanag.htm
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