Legionella Risk Control: Developing Effective Water Safety Plans
Legionella Risk Control: Build an Effective Water Safety Plan for Ontario
For Ontario building owners, facility managers, and maintenance professionals.
Legionella bacteria can grow silently in a building's water systems and, once airborne, cause a severe and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia — yet these outbreaks are largely preventable with the right knowledge, monitoring, and a well-built water safety plan. This course empowers you to take charge of water system safety, comply with legal requirements, and protect public health. You'll learn to identify Legionella risks, navigate essential regulations, and implement robust Water Safety Plans (WSPs) that minimize liability, operational disruption, and health hazards.
What you'll walk away with
- The ability to assess Legionella risk across a building's water systems
- A clear understanding of your legal and duty-of-care obligations in Ontario
- The skills to build and implement a robust Water Safety Plan (WSP)
- Confidence to monitor, sample, and interpret Legionella test results
- Reduced liability, operational disruption, and health hazards
- Your certificate — generated instantly the moment you pass
Water Safety Is a Shared Responsibility
Building owners and operators are required to understand the risks in their water systems, put controls and monitoring in place, and act on problems before they become hazards. Facility and maintenance staff, in turn, are expected to follow the water safety plan, carry out monitoring and maintenance tasks, and report conditions that could allow Legionella to grow.
What's inside — 6 modules + final assessment
- The Importance of Water Safety Plans for Health & Compliance — why WSPs matter, the health risks they address, and how they help you meet legal and duty-of-care obligations.
- Understanding Legionella: Biology, Transmission & Risk Factors — what Legionella is, how it grows and spreads, how people are exposed, and what raises outbreak risk.
- Mapping & Assessing Building Water Systems for Legionella Risk — how to map water systems and pinpoint where conditions could let Legionella grow and spread.
- Developing & Implementing a Water Safety Plan (WSP) — how to build and action a plan that identifies risks, assigns responsibilities, and sets out the required controls.
- Monitoring, Sampling & Interpreting Legionella Test Results — how systems are monitored and sampled, and how to read results to guide decisions.
- Control Measures, Remediation & Worker Safety Protocols — the measures used to manage Legionella risk and the protocols that protect the workers doing the work.
- Final Assessment — an online exam that tests your knowledge across the full course.
How it works
The course is fully self-paced, so you can start, stop, and pick up again on your own schedule. Every lesson is voice-narrated with interactive checkpoints that confirm you've absorbed each section before moving on. As soon as you pass the final exam, you can immediately generate your certificate.
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FAQ
Who is this course for?
Building owners, operators, facility managers, and maintenance professionals in Ontario responsible for water system safety and Legionella risk.
How long does it take?
About 60 minutes, and it's fully self-paced — start, stop, and resume anytime.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — as soon as you pass the final exam, you can immediately generate and print your certificate of completion.
Do you offer bulk pricing?
Yes! We do — the discounts are applied automatically as you add more seats for purchase.
What's your refund policy?
There are no refunds.