Ensure learners have the required knowledge in this complex field!

The last few decades have seen high-profile outbreaks of diseases linked to cooling towers and evaporative condensers that have cost lives and resulted in prosecutions and changes to the law.

To help learners understand this often complex subject, we have developed the Highfield Level 2 Award in Legionella Awareness (Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers) (RQF) to provide learners who work in environments when legionella is a risk.

The qualification will increase learners’ awareness of the subject in order to prevent waterborne disease caused by legionella bacteria. It also provides learners with the knowledge and understanding of the health effects of Legionnaires’ disease, the control measures that should be in place to prevent it, plus the consequences for not complying with relevant legislation and codes of practice.

In addition, the qualification contains specialist units covering the risks associated with either cooling towers and evaporative condensers or hot and cold-water systems. It contains two pathways which should be relevant to the learner’s workplace:

• Pathway 1 Cooling towers and evaporative condensers
• Pathway 2 Hot and cold-water systems