Meet Abigail Hasnip, our new Marketing Assistant

We’re delighted to announce that Abigail Hasnip has joined our team as our new Marketing Assistant! She brings with her an innovative approach to marketing that will revolutionise our communications. There are many exciting things coming over the next few months that we can’t wait to share with you, and Abigail will be a cornerstone of these developments.

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Meet Andrew Field, our new Business Development Manager

Severn Trent Water Hygiene have exciting plans in-the-works for the future of water safety training services. In order to bring these plans to life, we’re investing in a dedicated Business Development Manager. We’re delighted to announce that Andrew Field has joined Severn Trent Water Hygiene to help deliver innovative training solutions.  

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Meet Ian Bufton, Managing Director of LeafOne

Meet Ian Bufton, Managing Director of LeafOne, the software company behind SampleTrack. Ian has been in the software industry for over 25 years! He’s working hard to grow the scope of SampleTrack. LeafOne want to help even more customers solve their sampling problems with software.

We caught up with Ian to learn more about his software design philosophy, and about the exiting things LeafOne has in store for SampleTrack.

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Meet James Leeson, one of our Regional Sales Managers.

Meet James Leeson, one of our Regional Sales Managers, using his expertise to support our Sales Team with their ambitious growth goals.

James has been in the Water Hygiene industry for 11 years, starting off as a Service Technician working on a contract for a major Birmingham hospital. He has since worked his way up through being a Sales Engineer, before training to be a Business Development Manager, and finally moving in to his current role as a Regional Sales Manager.

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Health Centre Closure Highlights Legionella Risks

A health centre has had to relocate to a temporary building after dangerous levels of legionella bacteria was found in its water supply. The health centre, which is located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire has been evacuated and will operate from its new accommodation for between eight and twelve weeks while remedial actions are undertaken.

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BS7592:2022: A New Legionella Sampling Standard:

Legionella is a bacterial disease that causes severe pneumonia, especially in the elderly. Any building that regularly has visitors is at risk of hosting Legionella, and builders and contractors are responsible for maintaining this bacteria within acceptable limits. How do you know what your control standards are? The British Standards Institute has released an updated version of the standard it originally drew up in 1992: BS7592:2008; BS7592:2022

Let’s take a look at the some of the key updates to this standard surrounding sampling for the presence of legionella bacteria.

This article is part of the Water Hygiene Newsletter.

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Meet Arran Webb, one of our Service Technicians.

Meet Arran Webb, one of our midlands-based Service Technicians. He works primarily with one of our customers in the Education sector; a university in the East Midlands.

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Managing Legionella Risk in Care Homes

Care home operators have a duty of care to ensure that their vulnerable residents are housed in a clean environment, protected from the risk of infection. This includes legionella within care homes. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have recently cracked down on three care homes in England that have been negligent regarding their responsibility to keep their residents safe.

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