Cooling Tower Notification
Cooling towers and evaporative condensers have been associated
with outbreaks of Legionella.
The Notification of Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condenser
Regulations 1992 imposes a duty on a person who has control of
a premises with any of the following to notify
Environmental Health by completing and sending in this
Cooling Towers
Registration Form 13.6 KB PDF.
The devices include:
- Cooling Tower - (a device whose main
purpose is to cool water by direct contact between that water and a
stream of air. The device may use either a mechanical or
natural draft);
- Evaporative Condenser
- (a device whose main purpose is to cool a fluid by passing that
fluid through a heat exchanger which itself is cooled by
contact with water passing through a stream of air);
- Adiabatic Cooling Device - (a evaporative
dry cooling process) but only
notifiable if it has a wet pre-cooling
process.
The main purpose of registering your cooling tower is to
identify potential sources of risk and allow the relevant health
and safety enforcing authority monitor and inspect them.
View
the cooling tower registrations issued by Ashford Borough
Council.
Further Information
Further information about Legionella is available from
the HSE's (Health and
Safety Executive) website.
Download a copy of the Legionnaires' Disease - A
Guide for Employers 104 KB PDF leaflet.
Contact Us
If you would like to obtain further information about cooling
towers, or in relation to any aspect of the above, we will be
pleased to help on telephone 01233 330594 or email
envhealth@ashford.gov.uk.
This webpage was updated on
3/7/2012