Many of you have heard about the requirement for Health (hospitals and day hospitals) and aged care in Queensland requiring a Water Risk Management Plan.  You may be in a situation where you don’t reside in the sunshine state or you have facilities outside of Queensland and you don’t know whether you should have a Water Risk Management Plan or whether you should be actively doing something about risk.

Well the answer to that is YES you should be doing something.

Why? Let me give you a few reasons.

Legionella just doesn’t stop at the border it is endemic to all water sources and therefore any man made water systems are at risk to Legionella.  In every state and territory we have an OHS Act requiring a workplace safe from risk or harm.

In every state in Australia they have some form of guidelines, codes of practice or public health regulations that regulate the risk of Legionella in a Health or aged care setting.  As well as nationally there are guidelines out from Enhealth for the ‘Guidelines for the  Control of Legionella in the operation and maintenance of water distribution systems in health and aged care facilities.’

If you would like assistance in developing a Water Risk Management plan for a facility of yours whether it is inside QLD or elsewhere in Australia or just to be pointed in the right direction.  Call Jonathan Mutch now on 0429431709 or send through a message here.