{"id":8999,"date":"2018-12-12T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2018-12-12T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:14:40","slug":"local-authority-sentenced-after-member-of-public-contracts-legionnaires-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/local-authority-sentenced-after-member-of-public-contracts-legionnaires-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Local authority sentenced after member of public contracts Legionnaires\u2019 Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>A District Council has been fined after a member of public contracted Legionnaires\u2019 Disease having been a regular user of its leisure centre facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrates\u2019 Court heard how the member of public frequently used the showers at the leisure centre when, in November 2016, he fell seriously ill and was taken to hospital where he remained for 18 days. He was diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease, sepsis, pneumonia and chronic kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>Water samples taken from the men\u2019s shower tested positive for the legionella bacteria. Legionella bacteria can proliferate in hot and cold water systems that aren\u2019t properly maintained or cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the District Council had failed to adequately manage the water systems at a number of leisure centres in the district. The significant failings included not having suitable and sufficient Legionella Risk Assessments for the leisure facilities and not providing adequate control measures required for Legionella control. Staff were not adequately trained and a lack of monitoring meant these failings went unnoticed for several months.<\/p>\n<p>The District Council pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a3 27,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a3 7,500.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the case, an HSE inspector said: \u201cHot and cold water systems can provide the ideal breeding ground for the potentially fatal legionella bacteria if certain control measures are not in place. Controls such as maintaining water temperatures, regular flushing of low-use outlets and adequate cleaning are all necessary in order to reduce the risk of legionella developing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe District Council failed to ensure controls such as these being implemented therefore causing a potential risk to human health. This could have easily been a fatality and given the number of people who use the facilities, the potential legionella risk to the public would have been significant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A District Council has been fined after a member of public contracted Legionnaires\u2019 Disease having been a regular user of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Local authority sentenced after member of public contracts Legionnaires\u2019 Disease - MBO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/local-authority-sentenced-after-member-of-public-contracts-legionnaires-disease\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local authority sentenced after member of public contracts Legionnaires\u2019 Disease - 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