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Legionnaires' Disease
Risk Management
Buildings, and their systems require regular inspection to ensure efficient and trouble free operation. Kelcroft's expertise helps building owners, conducting audits of systems, particularly aqueous systems to ensure compliance with the latest guidance and codes of practice.
Duties
Building owners and operators have a fiduciary
responsibility to protect the general public, their staff and
occupants from health hazards.
In addition, employers have separate duties, under the labour
ordinance, to provide a healthy and safe working environment.
In Hong Kong, every case of Legionnaires' disease infection is
investigated by the government to trace the source. Where unsatisfactory
installations are noted system modifications, or replacement instructions
will be issued to comply with the local code.
Buildings and Systems
The range of equipment, and devices implicated with
Legionnaires' disease amplification and dissemination is
extensive. Here is a schedule created by Kelcroft, that
provides an overview:
Schedule Of
Legionnaires Disease (Legionella) Disseminators (PDF format,
3 pages, November 2004)
Solutions
History has taught us that Prevention is better, and cheaper than cure.
Photograph: Legionella Prevention Symposium December 2003 [John
Herbert Centre]
You can mitigate the risk using Kelcroft's expertise, we prepare a comprehensive Legionella Risk Management audit identifying and assessing the risk before your building air-conditioning systems are closed down, and revenue is lost.
Why audit?
Without a risk assessment audit your business could crumble beneath you. As the news hits the headlines your customers evaporate, many will never return, it has happened before and it will happen again.
A businessman thought a decorative fountain would be a great addition for his restaurant lobby, however it was not maintained. A Legionella outbreak occurred, many of his customers fell ill. However weeks later after the media hype had subsided, the customers didn't return, they stayed away. The damage was already done, the business closed forever.
Don't let you business suffer the same fate.
Further Information
For further information regarding Kelcroft's services, call today, our Hong Kong office telephone: +(852) 2335 9830, send us a fax +(852) 2335 9862, or send us an email message