Legionella Training Course Water Safety Awareness, Certified Across Ireland

Legionella never knocks before it arrives. It multiplies silently in a calorifier running too cool, a shower head nobody has descaled, an outlet in an empty flat that has not been run for weeks. Then somebody breathes in a fine mist of contaminated droplets, and a forgotten plumbing detail turns into Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia serious enough to hospitalise and sometimes to kill. The course takes that risk apart step by step, then shows you the controls that remove it. This course hands duty holders the full toolkit. Module one explains what legionella bacteria are, how Legionnaires' disease develops and who is most vulnerable. Module two sets out your legal position under Irish law, including registering cooling towers and reporting legionellosis cases to the Health and Safety Authority. Module three tours the water systems that carry risk, from evaporative cooling systems to hot and cold water services and spa pools. Module four teaches the five step legionella risk assessment, and module five covers the controls that keep water safe: temperatures, flushing, cleaning, disinfection, monitoring and records. Real water systems and clear photographs carry every lesson.

Section 19 is the short answer. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires every duty holder to identify the hazards on the premises they control, assess the risks in a written risk assessment and put controls in place. Legionella bacteria in water systems are exactly such a hazard, and the Act also demands the information, instruction and training needed to manage it. Our course is written directly against that wording, which is why it satisfies the duty rather than merely gesturing at it.

Everyone responsible for premises with water systems: employers, self-employed people, landlords and letting agents, facilities and maintenance managers, and the owners and managers of hotels, gyms, spas, care homes, schools and offices. The course is introductory, so nobody needs previous training to start.

The Legionella Training Course is €35.00 per person, and that is the full price. Team bookings get a volume discount applied automatically, and any 5 different courses cost just €100 flat (except our premium HACCP Level 3 and Health and Safety for Managers courses, which keep their own price), with one invoice and one account for all your records.

Yes, the whole course is online and works on any phone, tablet or laptop. There is no classroom day and no fixed start time: register, log in and begin the Legionella Training Course whenever it suits you, at home or on a break at work. Progress saves automatically as you go.

About 2 hours, and you do not have to do it in one sitting. Progress saves as you go, so you can stop after a lesson and pick it back up on another device. Your certificate is ready to download the moment you pass.

You download your Legionella Training Course certificate as a PDF the moment you pass the exam, day or night. It shows your name, the course, the date and a verification link, so an employer or inspector can confirm it in seconds. A copy stays in your account whenever you need to print it again.

Renewal is recommended every three years, or sooner if your water systems, your role or the law changes. We track the date for you and send a reminder before it lapses, so no certificate in your team expires without anyone noticing. The refresher is the same short online course, so staying compliant never costs a working day.

Nothing bad. You can retake the exam as many times as you need at no extra cost, and you can revisit any lesson before trying again. Most learners pass first time, because the questions test exactly what the course just taught.

This course is assessed by examination rather than by a practical, because the competence it builds is judgement rather than technique. You get unlimited attempts at the exam, at no extra cost.

Yes, and the platform is built for it. One company account covers every employee, shows you at a glance who has finished and who has not, stores every certificate in one place and gives you a single invoice for the lot. Group bookings get the volume discount applied automatically in your cart, and any 5 different courses cost just €100 flat (except our premium HACCP Level 3 and Health and Safety for Managers courses, which keep their own price).

They do. We are an official accredited provider and the certificate carries a verification link an inspector can check in seconds. It is accepted by employers in Ireland, the UK and across the EU, and behind it stand our accreditations: Irish Legislation Aligned, QQI Assessed, CPD and RoSPA Accredited.

Everything a duty holder needs, across five modules: what legionella bacteria are, how Legionnaires' disease develops, its symptoms and the people most at risk; your legal responsibilities under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Chemical Agents Regulations 2001 and the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Legionellosis, including registering cooling towers and reporting cases to the Health and Safety Authority; the man-made water systems that carry risk, from evaporative cooling systems to hot and cold water services and spa pools; the five step legionella risk assessment; and the control measures that keep water safe, from storage temperatures and weekly flushing to cleaning, disinfection, monitoring and record keeping.

The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires duty holders to identify hazards, assess risks and provide the information, instruction and training people need to stay safe, and the Chemical Agents Regulations 2001 extend those duties to biological agents such as legionella. The Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Legionellosis turns the duties into a concrete standard: a risk assessment by a competent person, a written control scheme, registration of cooling towers and evaporative condensers, and reporting of work related legionellosis cases. Completing this course is that training, evidenced by a verifiable certificate.

Fifteen multiple choice questions, three options each, drawn from all five modules. Passing needs 12 correct answers out of 15, a 75 percent pass mark. Nothing is timed, and a failed attempt costs nothing: review any module and retake the test free, as often as you need. The certificate generates the second you pass.

The moment the pass screen appears. The certificate is created automatically, emailed to you and stored on the Certificates page of your account, carrying a unique code any employer or inspector can verify online. Enrolment to certificate normally fits inside a single sitting of about 2 hours.

Anyone in control of premises with water systems, whatever the size. That means employers and the self-employed, landlords and letting agents, facilities and maintenance managers, and the people running hotels, gyms, spas, care homes, schools and offices. If a building has showers, hot and cold water systems, a cooling tower, a spa pool or misting devices, somebody is its duty holder, and this course shows that person exactly what the law expects.

Yes, thoroughly. Landlords and letting agents carry the same duty as any employer: tenants must be protected from legionella risks in the water systems of their home. The course explains why stagnant water in a vacant property is one of the biggest warning signs, the weekly flushing routine that keeps outlets safe between tenancies, sensible temperatures for calorifiers and taps, the simple records that prove compliance, and the moments when a specialist water treatment company is the right call.

Yes. Delivery is 100 percent online, so a landlord in Sligo receives the identical accredited course and certificate as a facilities manager in Dublin. Begin on any device, pause when work interrupts and resume exactly where you stopped; progress syncs automatically and the certificate is recognised by employers across Ireland, the UK and the EU.

The free Employer Dashboard handles the rollout: enrol staff in bulk, assign the Legionella Training Course to each person, watch completions arrive in real time and keep every certificate on one screen for the next audit. Checkout prices itself automatically, no voucher codes: 15 percent off any 3 different courses, 10 percent off 10 or more courses, 20 percent off 50 or more, and any 5 different courses for a flat 100 euro (excludes the premium HACCP Level 3 and Health and Safety for Managers courses).