Legionella Operative Training Course

1-Day Classroom Course – £235

Venue: Hydro-X Training HQ, Solihull, Slough or Hemel Hempstead

1/2 Day Live Virtual Classroom – £205

Price includes City & Guilds Certification

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Legionella Operative Training

1-Day Classroom Course – £235

Venue: Hydro-X Training HQ, Solihull, Slough or Hemel Hempstead

1/2 Day Live Virtual Classroom – £205

Price includes City & Guilds Certification

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Legionella Operative Training (HXT-04)

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Course Prerequisites 

Learners who wish to attend this Legionella Technical Operative Training should have a good level of industry experience or will be required to provide an in-date certificate for Legionella Awareness (HXT-W01) or equivalent

Legionella Operative Training Overview

This Legionella Operative Training is ideal for learners who wish to develop skills for legionella control and maintenance in hot and cold water system. Furthermore, learners who wish to attend this Legionella Technical Operative Training should have a good level of industry experience or have taken a recognised Legionella Awareness Course.

Legionella Operative Training Course

Is This The Right Course For You?

This Legionella Technical Operative course is designed for staff that intend to routinely complete semiskilled tasks associated with controlling the risk of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems.

These could include such tasks as:

  • TMV servicing
  • Cold Water Storage Tank Inspections
  • Basic microbiological sampling
  • Inspection and cleaning of calorifiers
  • Expansion vessel purging

Those persons will typically be maintenance staff, but also may be Responsible Person or Deputy Responsible Person, who require deeper practical knowledge.

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Benefits of attending this hot and cold water systems course:

1. Controlling the risk of legionella bacteria in hot and cold water systems
a) Introduction to the Risk Assessment
b) The importance of the Written Scheme
c) Areas that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
d) Inspection/monitoring of hot & cold-water systems

2. The compliance requirements of hot and cold water systems
a) Temperature monitoring
b) Flushing
c) TMV maintenance & commissioning
d) Calorifier drain purging
e) Shower & spray tap cleaning, disinfections & descale

3. Hot and cold water systems issues
a) Problem solving issues within the water systems
b) Emergency procedures if required
c) Cleaning & disinfection of systems

Benefits for the employer

  1. Compliance with the “L8 Fourth edition” code of practice and HSG 274 Technical Guidance
  2. More effective control of the risk associated with legionella bacteria
  3. Reduced risk of associated moral, legal and financial implications associated with prosecution for poor legionella control

3 Ways to learn Legionella Operative Training

LIVE Virtual Classroom

  • Experienced trainer delivers the course LIVE ready to answer all of your questions
  • Exact same course as the face-to-face training
  • No software or IT skills required
  • No travel required
  • City and Guilds Accredited Certification included
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On-Site Training

  • For 5 learners or more
  • Dedicated trainer for the duration of the course
  • Better suited to those who prefer face-to-face training
  • Tailor the course to your companies needs
  • City and Guilds Accredited Certification included
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  • Specialist facilities
  • Better suited to those who prefer face-to-face training
  • Spacious training rooms
  • Opportunity to network
  • City and Guilds Accredited Certification included
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Course Information

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  1. How legionella bacteria enter water systems and how we may contract legionnaires’ disease
  2. Understand legionella bacteria
  3. Legionella illnesses, symptoms and susceptibility
  4. Routes of transmission
  5. Understand pneumonia and legionella’s impact within the lung
  6. Conditions that legionella favour for proliferation
  7. Understand aerosol generation
  8. Basics behind ACOP L8 and HSG 274
  9. Importance of the management pathway
  10. Basics behind legionella risk assessment
  1. Importance of the written scheme
  2. Systems that represent a reasonably foreseeable risk
  3. Inspection and monitoring of hot and cold water systems
  4. Method of temperature monitoring
  5. Different methods of control used in water systems
  6. Requirements for a compliant cold water storage cistern
  7. Method of flushing little used outlets
  8. Where the water regulations apply
  9. Method of purging a calorifier drain
  10. Method of cleaning, disinfecting and descaling showers and spray taps
  1. Emergency procedures when a system goes out of control
  2. Method of cleaning and disinfecting of systems
  3. Specific requirements for TMV’s
  4. Requirement for inspection and cleaning of calorifiers
  5. Requirement for flushing of expansion vessels
  • The legislation: HSE ACOP L8 and HSG274 part 2
  • The role and duties of the Responsible Person and Duty Holder
  • The compliance requirements, including: Written Scheme (Control Scheme)
  • Problem solving issues within the water systems
  • Emergency procedures if required
  • Cleaning & disinfection of systems
  • Control measures of hot & cold-water systems
  • Temperature monitoring
  • Flushing little used outlets
  • TMV maintenance & commissioning
  • Calorifier inspection and drain purging
  • Showers and spray tap cleaning, disinfection and descale

At the end of the Legionella training each delegate undertakes a multiple choice assessment consisting of 20 questions, with 15 correct answers achieving a pass grade (75%).

Where facilities permit, assessment is completed online to enable faster processing of results and certification.

On successful completion of this Legionella Operative Training you will receive a City and Guilds Accredited Programme Certificate.

A digital certificate will be made available for you to download normally within 48hrs of successfully completing this course.

Paper copies of certificates can be supplied subject to a small administration fee.

This will need renewing every 2 years.

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Our classroom courses incorporate: trainer explanation, a presentation, group discussion, videos, practical classroom exercise and breakout sessions. At HX Training Centre’s, our courses are hosted in spacious training rooms with refreshments and the opportunity to network if you wish.

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As one of the leading health, safety and compliance training providers within the UK, HX Training have innovatively and successfully delivered this method of unique, online training to thousands of delegates.

Instead of using Zoom or Microsoft Teams, our live virtual classrooms involve a tried and tested method of non-practical training course delivery that represents the best alternative to classroom training. HX Training offers the only City and Guilds approved and accredited live virtual classroom courses within the UK. Additionally, our online training covers different levels of compliance, which are suitable for any type of business.

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Live virtual classroom means the trainer offers a learner-centered approach, similarly to a classroom course, to ensure delegates’ educational needs are met. All of the online training provides a live trainer, ready to answer your questions throughout. In addition, the online training courses include: trainer explanation, a presentation, videos, questions and answer session, and finished with a multiple choice assessment.

As a user friendly, alternative approach to classroom training, delegates will finish our online training with refined skills that they can successfully apply to their place of work. Furthermore, virtual learning is both cost and time effective for both businesses and employees.

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