HSE Bulletin: Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022
11th January 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 2022Read More
Post Lockdown Positivity: Emerging Legionella Species Data
January 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 threeRead More
Service Delivery Standards Part D
January 2022 Each of the LCA service delivery standards ends with a section on what to tell your customer. These are specific to each service and are the sort of things that protect your interests as an LCA member and keep your client on the right side of the Law. Informing your customers of these elements of the service delivery standards are a requirement for LCA membership and most of our members achieve this with some standard phrases in a standard quotation template, terms and conditions, or similar. When you areRead More
False Claims to Membership
December 2021 The LCA regularly receives reports of companies either using the LCA logo or claiming to be members when they are not. This is sometimes an understandable oversight but sometimes it can be something more concerning. There have been a couple of recent cases that we would like to highlight to members that demonstrate that the LCA takes these inaccurate and sometimes false claims seriously and that sanctions are being employed. Our first action where this is reported to us or where we come across it, is to politely ask the company in question to stopRead More
The Impact of Lockdowns on Legionella Positivity Rates in the UK
17th December 2021 As an industry we know that Legionella bacteria thrive in man-made water systems and can proliferate when we allow these man-made systems to become warm and stagnate. This has been evidenced by the national lockdowns that occurred as part of the COVID-19 response by the UK government. The LCA has recently published information on The Impact of Lockdowns on Legionella Positivity Rates in the UK.Read More