


With over 16 years of experience within the water industry and a full meber of the Water Management Society (WMS), ECM Water Hygiene aim to provide clients with a cost effective, bespoke package to meet their compliance requirements. ECM Water Hygiene endeavour to deliver high quality risk assessments, ensuring the client receives a detai
With over 16 years of experience within the water industry and a full meber of the Water Management Society (WMS), ECM Water Hygiene aim to provide clients with a cost effective, bespoke package to meet their compliance requirements. ECM Water Hygiene endeavour to deliver high quality risk assessments, ensuring the client receives a detailed and reliable document including full system drawings where required. This provides the client with a sound understanding of how their system(s) are operating and highlighting any potential problem areas, with prioritised remedial recommendations to assist in bringing the system up to the required standard, ensuring a safe, wholesome water supply is available to the end user.

Quick turnaround times from the physical on site surveys until the completed written document are critical in order to provide the client with the necessary information to action any non-conformances which may arise during the survey.
Clients will always be made aware of any time sensitive actions during the site survey via phonecall and a
Quick turnaround times from the physical on site surveys until the completed written document are critical in order to provide the client with the necessary information to action any non-conformances which may arise during the survey.
Clients will always be made aware of any time sensitive actions during the site survey via phonecall and a follow up email to avoid unnecessary wait times on any urgent actions which may present at the time of assessment.

Competitive pricing to ensure services are readily available to all clients whether on basic domestic systems or larger, more complex healthcare or industrial systems.

ACoP L8 and HSG 274 (Parts 1–3) require that employers and responsible persons must have a suitable and sufficient legionella risk assessment carried out on their premises which should then be used to generate a Written Scheme for control incorporating the requirements laid out in the ACoP L8 document.
Legionella Risk Assessments are the core service provided by ECM Water Hygiene which over time has provided the company with extensive experience of a wide range of water systems, clients and in properties of varying sizes from very large hospital complexes, industrial plants, hotels and office blocks to the smallest of domestic housing and remote sites (such as windfarms), with the accompanying variance in types of systems included within these buildings such as private water supplies, including boreholes and rainwater capture systems.
A comprehensive and competent risk assessment is the first step in your control regime and in order to ensure this ECM Water Hygiene have extensive experience and are qualified to City and Guilds level in “Legionella Risk Assessment in Building Water Systems (ACOP L8 and HTM/SHTM 04-01)” standard via external accredited training bodies.
This is one of the highest standards available in the industry demonstrating ECM Water Hygiene's commitment to providing the most technically competent assessors.
Our assessments are carried out with due reference to
BS:8580-1: 2019 “Water quality – Risk assessments for Legionella
control – Code of practice”, the British Standard for risk assessments. This standard provides guidance to what you should expect from your assessment and assessor.
When working within NHS/healthcare premises ECM Water Hygiene also apply the appropriate HTM/SHTM 04-01 standards for these buildings.

ACoP L8 and HSG 274 (Parts 1–3) requires that employers and responsible persons must have a suitable and sufficient legionella risk assessment carried out on their premises which should then be used to generate a Written Scheme for control incorporating the requirements laid out in the ACoP L8 document.

The risk assessment should also highlight areas of non-compliance in design or construction of the system and distribution materials which may require remedial works to bring up to the required standards.

An ECM Water Hygiene L8 risk assessment will provide you with:
In addressing the findings of the risk assessment and the written scheme, responsible persons should be guided by the principle of designing out potential problems in the water system.
Castle Towers, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire KA18 4AE
Fraser Murray M.W.M.Soc tel: 0777 607 4397 email: fraser@ecmwaterhygiene.co.uk
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