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The key to preventing Legionnaires' disease is to make sure that building owners and managers maintain building water systems in order to reduce the risk of Legionella being and becoming over present in the immediate environment. Legionella can cause a serious type of pneumonia (lung infection) known as Legionnaires' disease. Some water systems in buildings have a higher risk for this and in recent years this has become a great deal more important in terms of the ways this is to be worked on. Legionella is a risk that all property owners and managers should take seriously. If you were to even just do a simple Google search you will see that there is no end of content on the HSE as well as other key websites around this subject matter. After all, when ignored the consequences around it can be very lethal. Legionella bacteria are the causative agents for two diseases that are known collectively as legionellosis; this is for sure another term to look out for and search for should you want to know more about this very high risk disease. Bacteria that can live in water from air conditioning systems, showers and spas cause this severe form of pneumonia. It is from all of these types of sources that Legionella can really grow and also take hold in terms of its presence and all of the ways it is able to also pose to be a main and major risk in any environment. In the UK every business, regardless of size and no matter what industry they may also be in needs to have a risk assessment of sorts in place to help combat this. It is very much seen and know to be the invisible killer in terms of the way it takes hold and can grab and kill. Whether it's the initial Legionella Risk Assessment or a robust Legionella Management programme implemented by competent contractors you need, there is now more and more of a market and more firms able to do this work. This has helped solve wide scale spreading in no end of ways. Though fire tends to be the most 'high-profile' risk when it comes to health and safety, Legionella, like asbestos, can for sure cause no end of problems to consumers in terms of the risks it can and is able to pose when it is present in the workplace.
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