LAC-67 and HSE Evaporative Cooling System Interventions
August 2024 There are currently two potential reasons for proactive regulator interventions in evaporative cooling systems and some confusion in the industry regarding the details. LCA members should be prepared to support their clients during these intervention programmes as required. Who Regulates Where? (https://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/og/og-00073-appendix1.htm) Generally, in schools, factories and governmentRead More
Appeals and Suspensions
July 2024 The LCA have processes for classifying suspension, termination, exclusion, lapsed members and reapplication. This procedure defines terms and lays out the requirements for members, applicants and the LCA. As we start to look forward to Re-registration the LCA would like to highlight the various states that Applicants, Members and former Members can be as defined by the LCA. Classification DRead More
Testing for Chlorine and Bromine
May 2024 There appears to be some confusion arising from the following paragraph found in the revised HSG274 part 1, Info Box 1.5: Biocide types and application: When using the DPD No 1 methodology it is essential that the result is pH-adjusted to account for the conversion of hypochlorous and hypobromous acids into their less effective hypochlorite and hypobromite ions, when higher pH levels are present. This is important, as the DPD No 1 test is not specific to either and will pick up some other oxidants that may be present in the syRead More
Remote Monitoring Guidance from the Water Management Society
May 2024 The Water Management Society (WMSoc) recently published the second part of its guidance on remote monitoring of water systems. The free to download document is titled Guidance for End Users on Remote Temperature Monitoring Systems - Part Two Interpretation and management of data. It provides some much needed guidance to end users on the what the data means, aRead More
LCA Audits, Current Findings and Timelines
March 2024 LCA membership includes the requirement to have an annual external audit by one of our occupationally competent assessors. The LCA have evolved our auditing documents over the last few years and now look in more depth and detail at our Member’s work. The audit questions break down the Member’s process and procedure (their plan) and the output evidence (following their plan) into a series of questions. There is more detail than before and as a result we have seen Members with more non-conformances to the Code of Conduct anRead More