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Importance of 'competence' cannot be under-estimated

August 2022 Matt Morse, who has worked in Legionella control and water treatment for over 20 years, both for service-providers and as an independent consultant, and works part-time as the Manager of the Legionella Control Association, discusses the subject of ‘competence’, with a particular focus on Legionella control. He focuses on what the term signifies, how it can be measured, and why it is so important into such a patient safety-critical field. This article is about competence, specifically for Legionella

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Guidance - Mergers and Acquisitions

1st April 2022 The LCA have recently published guidance on Mergers and Acquisitions. Please click here to view this.

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Revised LCA Procedure for Adding Additional Categories

March 2022 The LCA have revised the procedure for adding additional categories. This document is guidance for registered members on how to add categories and/or sub-categories to their registration with the LCA. Please log in to the Members Area of the website to view this.

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NEWSLETTER MARCH 2022
HSE Bulletin
Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulatio

March 2022 The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (‘the PPER 2022’) were laid before Parliament on 10 January 2022. Employers responsibilities to workers regarding the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are changing from 6 April 2022. The regulations and accompanying impact a

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NEWSLETTER MARCH 2022
Post Lockdown Positivity

March 2022 In July 2021 the LCA, in conjunction with HSE, PHE and Local Authorities held a webinar aimed at raising awareness of increasing legionella positivity rates post lockdown. The data demonstrated that the average positive rate in the UK had increased by around 2% following the lockdowns in response to COVID 19. Post the webinar, questions were asked if there were particular species that could have led to an increase. This was data that we, as the LCA, had never been asked to investigate or provide previously. With this in mind we approached the three co

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