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Legionella Risk Assessment Review Checklist

by Thomas Eckersley, from the Community

Use this template to review your current Legionella Risk Assessment in line with HSE L8 4th Edition and HSG274 Parts 1-3. The checklist guides duty holders and responsible persons through verifying policies, training, maintenance records, and control regimes; documenting assets such as cold water storage tanks, calorifiers, point-of-use heaters, showers, thermostatic mixing valves, RPZ valves, and softeners; checking temperatures, stagnation risk, and turnover; updating flushing schedules; and capturing non-compliance and remedial actions. Suitable for audits across commercial and public facilities to maintain water hygiene and compliance.

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