{"id":12082,"date":"2021-09-07T06:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duboischemicals.com\/water-treatment\/?p=12082"},"modified":"2021-09-07T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:25:50","slug":"six-steps-to-develop-a-water-safety-plan-and-comply-with-ashrae-standard-188-2015-legionella-a-canadian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duboischemicals.com\/water-treatment\/six-steps-to-develop-a-water-safety-plan-and-comply-with-ashrae-standard-188-2015-legionella-a-canadian-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Steps To Develop A Water Safety Plan And Comply With ASHRAE Standard 188-2015 \u2013 Legionella \u2013 A Canadian Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Your water systems harbor biological growth that can cause serious health issues. The CDC National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System continues to show an increase in infections from <em>Legionella<\/em>. Since 2001, the number of instances have increased from less than 0.5 to 2.5 incidences per 100,000 population in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With heightened awareness around sanitization and respiratory health, it is important to consider your water system in your safety plan and to educate your teams in current water chemistry hygiene standards.<\/p>\n<p>ASHRAE\u2019s standard on <em>Legionella<\/em> risk management was launched in 2015. This comprehensive best practice document has also become the legal benchmark. Canada is not immune to this moral and legal due diligence. Complying to this standard does not need to be complicated.<\/p>\n<p>The following six steps outline what you need to do to Develop A Water Safety Plan and Comply with ASHRAE Standard 188-2015 \u2013 <em>Legionella<\/em>.<strong><\/p>\n<h2>STEP 1: Water Safety Team<\/h2>\n<p>To comply with ASHRAE Standard 188, the building owner or designee must first form a Water Safety Team. This team will be responsible for managing the compliance process now and throughout the building\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<h2>STEP 2: Water System Flow Diagram<\/h2>\n<p>The team\u2019s first responsibility is to create a Water System Flow Diagram. This diagram is intended to highlight all the water processing steps in the building, where water changes physical and or chemical properties.<\/p>\n<h2>STEP 3: Risk Management Plan<\/h2>\n<p>Next, the team is required to prepare a Risk Management Plan. The goal of this document is to identify all critical \u201cControl Locations\u201d, the monitoring procedures or \u201cControl Measures\u201d for each of those locations, and the appropriate \u201cControl Limits\u201d \u2013 as well as pre-planned corrective actions in the event the system drifts outside the predefined \u201cControl Limits\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>STEP 4: Verification<\/h2>\n<p>The next steps are to ensure the plan is executed. The verification and validation steps have been confusing in the past. The verification is the act of confirming the plan is being implemented as designed. It can simply be a checklist confirming the control measures are being monitored as planned.<\/p>\n<h2>STEP 5: Validation<\/h2>\n<p>The validation is the confirmation that the plan is achieving its intended goal. Is the site minimizing the health risk? This can be done by disease surveillance. It can also be done by periodic <em>Legionella<\/em> sampling by culture. It is up to the team to define the appropriate validation method. The Standard does discuss best practices if sampling by culture is used as a method.<\/p>\n<h2>STEP 6: Documentation<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, the team is required to maintain documentation to verify that the plan is being properly implemented and to validate that the plan is achieving its disease risk reduction goal. Part of this documentation management process may be revisions to the flow diagram or plan as changes occur in the facility.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusions<\/h3>\n<p>More information is available on technologies and methods for your facility to enhance their Water Safety Plan. However, the best way to ensure your facility is in compliance with ASHRAE Standard 188-2015 \u2013 <em>Legionella<\/em>, is to follow the six steps above. We suggest you try to keep it simple to start and reach out to learn more about how AquaAnalytics can be leveraged to make the implementation and documentation of your plan as easy and seamless as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your water systems harbor biological growth that can cause serious health issues. The CDC National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System continues to show an increase in infections from Legionella. 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