Legionella risk assessments and ongoing compliance — without the audit anxiety.
Birmingham Water Solutions delivers competent Legionella risk assessments, written schemes of control and monitoring regimes to the Approved Code of Practice L8 and HSG274 — for healthcare, education, commercial and industrial estates UK-wide.
Legionella Risk Assessments & Compliance
Legionella isn't an abstract risk — it's a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) and HSE's Approved Code of Practice L8. If your building has a water system, you have a duty holder, and that duty holder has to demonstrate competent assessment, written control and ongoing monitoring.
We do the assessment, write the scheme, run the monitoring, log the evidence and stand behind it at audit. One accountable team, one set of records, one engineer who knows your site.
Whether you operate a single office or a portfolio of NHS sites, our Legionella programme is built around your risk profile — augmented care wards get a different response from cold-water storage in a small office block, and the paperwork shows it.
Birmingham Water Solutions is based in the city, so Legionella risk assessments and remedials across Birmingham and the West Midlands are mobilised same-day — with the same competent service extended to client estates UK-wide.
When you need it
- You don't have a current written Legionella risk assessment, or your last one is over two years old
- Your water system has been modified, extended or partially returned to service
- Occupancy has changed (post-COVID re-occupation, new wards, new tenants)
- A water sample has returned a positive Legionella result and you need a remedial response
- You're acquiring a building and need a competent assessment as part of due diligence
- An auditor, insurer or framework client has flagged gaps in your evidence
What's included as standard.
A typical engagement covers every line below. Where your scope needs more — multi-site rollout, white-label delivery, framework KPIs — we build it on top of this baseline.
Legionella Risk Assessment
Full system survey, asset register, schematic verification, written report ranked by risk with prioritised remedials.
Written Scheme of Control
A document specific to your site detailing exactly how Legionella is controlled — temperatures, flushing, sampling, responsibilities.
Monitoring Programme
Monthly/quarterly temperatures, flushing of little-used outlets, descales, tank inspections — delivered to schedule with digital evidence.
Sampling & Analysis
Legionella, TVC and Pseudomonas sampling via UKAS-accredited laboratories, with 7–10 day standard or 24 hr express turnaround.
Remedial Response
Thermal or chemical disinfection, system modifications, point-of-use filter installation, root-cause investigation and re-sampling.
Logbook & Audit Support
Full evidence pack — risk assessment, scheme, monitoring records, certificates of analysis, asset register — ready for HSE, CQC or insurer audit.
The compliance map for legionella compliance.
Built around the sector's compliance picture.
Healthcare
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SECTOR · 02Education
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SECTOR · 03Commercial
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SECTOR · 04Industrial & Process
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SECTOR · 05Public Sector
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SECTOR · 07FM & Contractors
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From brief to audit-ready evidence in five steps.
Brief & Survey
Free site walk-through with a senior engineer — scope, plant, risk, gaps.
Quote & Scheme
Itemised quote plus written scheme of control, dosing logic and reporting cadence.
Mobilise
Risk assessments, method statements, HSE paperwork and induction — turnkey.
Deliver
Engineers on-site with digital reporting, photos, lab links and live PPM tracking.
Evidence
Certificates, logbooks and HSE-ready audit packs — issued within 48 hours.