Water Hygiene Centre Blog
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  I confess – despite an acute awareness of the potential dangers of hot tubs and other similar spa facilities combined with a long held professional belief that caution is the order of the day –...

  This blog sets out some of the risks from scalding to which vulnerable people may be exposed when bathing or showering and the key measures required to protect them.

  Daniel Pitcher, Managing Director and Authorising Engineer [Water] at Water Hygiene Centre, considers future developments and changes for water safety. Legionnaires’ disease was first identified...

Above all, there are three factors that determine the likelihood of Legionella bacteria colonising a water system: Water temperature; Cleanliness; i.e. availability of nutrients and shelter; ...

  Happy Halloween, I hope you have your sweets ready, your costumes donned…and your spooky water features scrubbed and clean! Social events throughout the year are great excuses to put on a show...

Keep track on which members of staff need to be trained on what and when with this FREE tool from The Water Hygiene Centre. The objective of the Training Needs Review Tool is to provide your Water...

  Good water management within school properties can be distilled into the following areas: 1 – Establishing the level of water hygiene risk; 2 – Devising an action plan proportionate to risk; 3 –...

  What is the appetite for risk amongst managers of education estates with responsibility for health & safety? We would expect such organisations to operate on the basis that risks to health and...

This blog has been prompted on the back of a brief conversation, in which the hotelier believed that having had a legionella risk assessment completed , the hotel was compliant with the law and...

Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was implemented for the first time in 1992 and was limited in its use until 1997 when the NHS (Private Finance) Act was passed. Extensive use on large hospital...