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Legionella Temperature

How legionella bacteria grow in water systems, how people become ill and the checks that keep a building safe.

Legionella multiplies between 20°C and 45°C and is killed at 60°C. Hot water is therefore stored at 60°C or above and delivered at 50°C or more within one minute, and cold water is kept below 20°C. Temperature is the main control in ordinary water systems.

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No. Legionnaires' disease is not contagious in the ordinary sense. It is caught by breathing in fine droplets of water that contain the bacteria, from a source such as a shower, a spa pool or a cooling tower. A person who has it is no risk to others.

Yes. Every employer and every person in control of premises must assess the risk from the water systems, however simple. For a small building with mains fed cold water and a small water heater the assessment is short, but it must still be done and reviewed.

Not normally. The bacteria cause disease when they reach the lungs, which happens by breathing in an aerosol. Drinking contaminated water is not a recognised route, except in the rare case where water goes down the wrong way into the lungs.

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For duty holders, every certificate is dated proof that the people running your water systems are trained and competent, exactly what matters if an inspector or an insurer ever asks.

Every module comes from licensed, Chartered (CMIOSH) consultants working with current Irish health and safety law and Health and Safety Authority guidance.

That experience shows: the science of legionella explained through recognisable water systems, the risk assessment taught with the situations duty holders actually meet, from old calorifiers to vacant properties, and the control measures presented the way they actually work on an Irish premises, never as abstract theory. Practical judgement runs through every lesson.

Content is re-reviewed against current legislation and the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Legionellosis, so the course never drifts out of date.

The platform never closes, which matters when the work never really does either. Start the legionella training after a shift, continue at lunch the next day and finish on a day off, whatever rhythm your week allows.

Progress syncs across every device automatically, so switching from phone to laptop mid module is seamless. Night staff, part timers and weekend crews get exactly the same premium experience.

Teams can also reopen the risk assessment module before an audit or the control measures module when a system changes, turning the legionella course into a living reference rather than a one time event.

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From Dublin to Cork, Galway to Limerick and Waterford to Belfast, our legionella training helps Irish premises stay compliant and keeps the people who use them safe from Legionnaires' disease.

Employers come back because it simply works: clean records, instant certificates and a support team that answers.

Every organisation and person in control of premises with water systems, because the law places the duty squarely on whoever controls the risk. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Chemical Agents Regulations 2001, duty holders must assess and control hazards such as legionella, and the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Legionellosis names trained, competent people as the way it is done. Waiting until someone falls ill is the one strategy the law does not forgive.

In practice, the people taking this course with us are facilities and maintenance managers, landlords and letting agents, hotel and leisure teams with spa pools and showers, care home and school managers, gym owners, and the employers and building owners responsible for them.

If your premises has water systems that people use or that can release water droplets into the air, this training is for you, and our Irish support team can help roll it out across every location.

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Legionella Temperature

How legionella bacteria grow in water systems, how people become ill and the checks that keep a building safe.

The temperatures that control legionella

  • Below 20°C: the bacteria survive but do not multiply.
  • 20°C to 45°C: they multiply, fastest at around body temperature.
  • Above 50°C: they begin to die.
  • At 60°C: most die within minutes.

Temperature control is the main defence in ordinary hot and cold water systems. Hot water is stored at 60°C or above and reaches at least 50°C at the outlets within one minute of running, or 55°C in healthcare premises. Cold water is stored and delivered below 20°C, within two minutes of running. Where water this hot could scald, thermostatic mixing valves are fitted close to the outlet.

Thermostatic mixing valves

Water hot enough to control legionella can scald. A thermostatic mixing valve, or TMV, blends hot and cold water to deliver a safe temperature at the outlet, typically 41°C to 44°C, and shuts off if the cold supply fails. They are used where vulnerable people could be scalded: care homes, hospitals, schools and creches.

The mixed water downstream of the valve is at the ideal temperature for legionella, so the valve is fitted as close to the outlet as possible, to keep that length of pipe short. TMVs are checked, cleaned, descaled and tested for fail safe operation on a regular schedule, and their strainers are kept clean.

Where legionella grows

  • Hot and cold water systems: storage tanks, calorifiers, long pipe runs, showers, little used taps.
  • Cooling towers and evaporative condensers: the highest risk systems.
  • Spa pools and hot tubs: warm, aerated water.
  • Any system that stores water and makes spray: humidifiers, fountains, dental unit water lines, car washes.

The bacteria need four things: water between 20°C and 45°C, stagnation, nutrients such as scale, rust, sludge and biofilm, and a way of forming an aerosol. A system that offers all four is a risk. Removing any one of them reduces it.

Breathed in, not drunk

People are infected by inhaling fine droplets of contaminated water.

20 to 45 degrees

The bacteria multiply in lukewarm, stagnant water with scale, rust or slime to feed on.

Hot hot, cold cold, moving

Keep hot water hot, cold water cold and all of it flowing.

The accredited Legionella Course covers where legionella grows, how people are infected and how water systems are kept safe, in about an hour online, with a CPD certified certificate the moment you pass.

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