Legionella risk and sampling for Legionella analysis
TRAINING CENTRE
Information
- Target audience: Cooling tower water maintenance staff and operators carrying out water sampling for analysis
- Duration: 7 to 14 hours depending on equipment
- Location: On-site
- Prerequisites: None
- Open (inter-company) price: €650 excl. VAT per participant
- In-house price: on request
- Training dates: Contact us
Contact us for your in-house training request / pricing (on-site or remote).
Contact us
Phytocontrol
Audit, Consulting, Training
Parc Scientifique
180 rue Maupas – 30035 NÎMES
Tel.: +33(0)434147000
Fax: +33(0)466239995
Email: contact@phytocontrol-acf.com
TRAINING CENTRE
Objectives
- Identify the origin of Legionella and the associated risks
- Acquire the regulatory basics of Legionella risk
- Identify locations where Legionella develops
- Understand the different installations: Domestic Hot Water (DHW) and Cooling Towers
- Master sample collection techniques
TRAINING CENTRE
Programme
- 1. Legionella: presentation of the germ, pathogenicity, origin and characteristics
- Definition of legionellosis
- 2. Colonisation of installations, mode of contamination
- Factors favouring development: temperature, scaling, corrosion, stagnation
- 3. Current regulations for cooling tower water
- 4. Good sampling practices
- Prerequisites: general precautions / staff safety, sampling equipment, sampling record data
- Sampling of domestic hot water (DHW)
– Definition of regulatory sampling points for DHW
– Water sampling method at technical points
– Water sampling method at a point of use on the hot water network - Sampling of cooling tower water
– Definition of the sampling point for the cooling installation
– Water sampling method at the cooling installation, make-up water and discharge - Sample transport conditions