Legionella Risk Assessment WMSoc Cert Pathway

What can I learn?

This qualification is split into 3 pathways depending on the specialism of the risk assessor:

• Legionella risk assessment of hot & cold water and other systems – this will go into more detail on hot & cold water systems giving an understanding of the systems as a whole and more details on how they are controlled. Also covered in this pathway are temperature monitoring, sampling and inspection of water systems to ensure the risk assessor has a good understanding of precautionary measures likely to be in place and concludes with practical risk assessment where the student will have the ability to carry out a risk assessment and produce an executive summary for a dummy water system.


• Legionella risk assessment of cooling water and other systems - Legionella risk assessment of cooling water and other systems - This pathway will focus on evaporative cooling systems and will provide a basic understanding of evaporative cooling water chemistry followed by Legionella risk assessment for evaporative cooling systems. Focusing on the difficulties of cooling towers, their water treatment control programs and tower inspections.


• Legionella risk assessment for healthcare - this follows the foundations for Legionella risk assessment of hot & cold water and other risk systems with an additional modules to cover HTM 04-01 and BS 8580-2, Risk assessment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other waterborne pathogens – code of practice. Risk assessment pathway – course list as above.

In addition to attending the various required courses (see Map & Courses tabs) the candidate is expected to have practical experience of assessing the systems risk for legionella as defined by the chosen pathway. They would be expected to have seen a variety of buildings water systems and gained sufficient practical as well as theoretical knowledge to demonstrate competence. To achieve this level of practical experience depends on the candidate’s aptitude, frequency and complexity of risk assessing systems for legionella. We would recommend that the candidate has undertaken a variety of legionella risk assessments (from a mixture of different system types), and that the subsequent reports have been independently peer reviewed in order to allow a candidate to achieve the required experience.