Domestic Water Quality
Whilst routine water sampling is not compulsory, it is the single most cost effective tool in determining the quality of water at any location. Independent water sampling, auditing and inspections will ensure you get the best from all contractors and service providers associated with the water in your building.
TO SAMPLE OR NOT TO SAMPLE, THAT IS THE QUESTION?
Questions:
- How do you really know if a chlorination of your water system has worked if you do not test the water before or after the clean has taken place?
- How do you know if the new £2000 UV, ozone or ionization cleaning system installed actually works as well as you were told it would?
- How would you know if it failed?
- How do you know that the water supplied to site is of suitable drinking water quality?
- How do you know that once your staff drink it, it complies to drinking water guidelines?
- How do you know the vending machine in the office is cleaned adequately?
- How do you prove the water in your building is fit for purpose?
- How do you help protect your company from potential litigation, accusations and prosecutions regarding the water or indoor air quality in your building?
Wrong Answers:
It is not best practice to:
- Get the supplier who sold and installed the machine or gadget for you to test the water. Are you sure they would tell you the machine do not actually work properly or that the water is of poor quality?
- Get the plumber or engineer who did your chlorination to test it for you? Are you sure they would be honest and tell you the expensive kit they sold you did not actually work or that they ran out of chemical during the clean so did not actually clean the whole system? Are you sure you would spot these real world occurrences?
Right Answers:
Independent! Independent! Independent!
Conduct a programme of independent water quality monitoring, auditing reviews and inspections. This will ensure that you get the quality you have paid for, from everyone involved. Having an independent helping to protecting you, your employees, your water services and your business is the intelligent way forward in environmental awareness and health and safety management.
Using an independent ensures you get an impartial objective view of all things related to the water of indoor air quality in your building. True independence means no financial or other interest in the provision of chemicals, maintenance or equipment etc associated with the water or air quality in your building. This is the very specific service that Aqua Legion UK are able to provide with expertise, professionalism and integrity in clear focus.
In an ever changing world, with ever more risks evolving, Aqua Legion UK, say it is never safe to assume. A programme of routine independent water sampling monitoring and inspection resolves all the questioning in one economical, and eco- friendly action.
Domestic Water System Surveys
It is important to note that domestic water systems are three times more likely to cause legionella infections than cooling towers or air conditioning systems.
Aqua Legion UK are specialists in identifying areas favorable for growth and proliferation of legionella bacteria in domestic water systems. This requires very specific knowledge and understanding. L8 compliant Legionella risk assessment is an important and very specialist field. Locating stagnant water, dead legs and nutrient rich areas susceptible to bacterial proliferation is no simple task for the untrained persons.
Furthermore, once these areas have been recognised, it can often be even more complex as to how or what measures are needed to control, manage or reduce the risks. We advise that you do not attempt to carry out a Legionella risk assessment yourself unless you are adequately trained, and can demonstrate that you are entirely competent to do so. After all, this is how enforcing bodies will view it should a problem occur in your work place.
To control bacterial growth within a domestic water system a number of control measures are required. If you would like further information please do not hesitate to give us a call on
020 8555 3797
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