Legionella Awareness Training

Be Confident in Compliance, Protection & Best Practice

Why This Legionella Awareness Training Course Matters

Legionella bacteria present a serious and often underestimated risk in hot and cold water systems, cooling towers, spray systems, humidifiers, and other water outlets. Without the right awareness and control measures in place, they can multiply rapidly and cause Legionnaires’ disease a potentially fatal form of pneumonia. When an outbreak occurs, the consequences for any organisation can be devastating.

Businesses face legal action under the Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH, and ACoP L8, along with heavy financial penalties, compensation claims, and severe reputational damage. Operations may be disrupted for weeks or even months while investigations and remediation take place, and most importantly, people’s health and lives are put in danger.

This is why proactive training isn’t just best practice — it’s an essential part of managing risk and fulfilling your legal responsibilities. Our Legionella Awareness Training course is designed to give you and your team the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage water safety effectively and consistently.

It provides a comprehensive understanding of how and where Legionella develops, how it spreads, and what steps are required to prevent outbreaks before they happen. By exploring real-world scenarios and practical control measures, the course helps you recognise risk points across your systems, implement proportionate control strategies, and build robust monitoring and record-keeping procedures that stand up to regulatory scrutiny.

More than just a compliance exercise, this training empowers your organisation to take a proactive approach to water safety. It ensures your team knows exactly what to do, how to do it, and why it matters enabling you to demonstrate due diligence, protect people from harm, maintain business continuity, and build trust with regulators, clients, and the communities you serve.

In short, it’s the knowledge that keeps people safe, protects your reputation, and gives you peace of mind.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this Legionella Awareness Training course, you will be able to:

• Explain what Legionella bacteria are, how they grow, where they thrive and how people can be exposed.
• Recognise the health effects of Legionnaires’ disease, symptoms, incubation and susceptible populations.
• Understand your legal obligations under ACOP L8, HSG274 (Parts 1-3), Health & Safety at Work Act and COSHH.
• Identify risk systems: hot & cold water systems, cooling towers, rare/temporary water storage, areas of stagnation, biofilms.
• Apply control measures: temperature control, flushing, disinfection, cleaning, designing systems for maintenance.
• Maintain accurate records and a written scheme of control; understand what should be included.
• Perform basic risk assessment steps and understand the responsibilities of the duty holder or responsible person.
• Know what to do in case of suspected legionella risk or non-conformity; understand monitoring, auditing, refreshing training.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for:

• Duty Holders & Responsible Persons
• Facilities, Estates & Maintenance Managers
• Landlords & Building Owners
• Health & Safety Officers, Supervisors & Compliance Teams
• Anyone who works with water systems (hot, cold, storage, cooling, spray, etc.)
• Staff in sectors like healthcare, education, hospitality, commercial property, where water safety is important

Whether you’re new to legionella risk management or need a refresher, this training will bring you up to speed.