Understand your water safety risks with a professional Legionella Risk Assessment
We’ll assess your water system, identify potential risks, and provide practical recommendations to help you meet your legal responsibilities.
A Legionella Risk Assessment is a systematic inspection of a property’s water systems to identify conditions that may encourage the growth and spread of Legionella bacteria.
The assessment considers how water is stored, distributed and used throughout the building, together with factors such as water temperatures, system design, usage patterns and maintenance arrangements.
During a Legionella Risk Assessment, the assessor will typically review:
• Hot and cold water systems
•Cold water storage tanks
• Water heaters and calorifiers
• Pipework and outlets
• Little-used outlets
• Water temperatures
• Areas where water may stagnate
• Existing control measures and maintenance procedures
The assessment identifies potential risks and provides practical recommendations to help reduce the likelihood of Legionella growth while supporting compliance with current health and safety guidance.
Water systems that aren’t properly managed can create conditions where Legionella bacteria are able to grow and multiply, increasing the risk of exposure through airborne water droplets.
A Legionella Risk Assessment helps you understand whether your property’s water system presents a potential risk and identifies the measures needed to reduce that risk.
Beyond helping you meet your legal responsibilities, a suitable Legionella Risk Assessment provides a clear understanding of your water system, highlights areas that may require attention and supports the ongoing management of water hygiene.
Whether you’re responsible for a commercial premises, rental property, healthcare environment or another building with water systems, managing Legionella risk is an important part of maintaining a safe environment for occupants, employees and visitors.
We provide Legionella Risk Assessment across a wide range of properties and facilities, including residential properties, supported accommodation, offices, schools and educational facilities, retail and commercial premises, and larger property portfolios.
Our Legionella Risk Assessments are completed using recognised industry guidance,
relevant standards, and legislation including:
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH)
• HSE Approved Code of Practice L8
• HSG274 Parts 1–3
• BS 8580-1:2019
Whether you require an Asbestos Survey on its own or alongside other compliance services, we’ll help coordinate the process through one trusted provider, making property compliance simpler to manage.
Our competent surveyors carry out Asbestos Surveys across a wide range of commercial and residential properties, ensuring each survey is appropriate for the building and its intended use.
Based in Manchester with a particular focus on Greater Manchester and the wider North West. But our team supports clients across the UK, so wherever your properties are located, we’re ready to help.
Our compliance reports are written in plain English, with clear findings, practical recommendations and documentation that’s ready to use. No unnecessary jargon, just reports that help you act quickly and stay compliant.
From your first enquiry to your final report and beyond, we’re committed to clear communication, prompt responses and proactive recommendations and reminders to help you stay compliant without the stress.
We coordinate your compliance services in one place, reducing administration, saving time and making property compliance easier to manage, so you can focus on supporting your residents.
This is the second time we have used this company, and once again they have exceeded our expectations. This company offers every compliant service we need, which genuinely makes our day-to-day operations run more smoothly and gives us complete peace of mind.
Their customer service is outstanding. Every interaction—whether by phone or email—has been prompt, professional, and incredibly helpful. It’s clear that they value their clients and take pride in delivering reliable, efficient support.
They have become a trusted part of our process, and we will certainly continue using them in the future.
Brilliant from start to finish. Carried out my Legionella, damp and asbestos surveys professionally, explained everything clearly, and made the whole process straightforward.
Communication was excellent, they turned everything around quickly, and the reports and certificates were well presented and easy to understand. It’s refreshing to work with someone who’s reliable, knowledgeable, and genuinely helpful.
I’d happily recommend Ryan and The Compliance Company to anyone needing compliance surveys done. I’ll definitely be using them again.
Great service! We needed an asbestos and legionella report for our property, and the team handled everything quickly and professionally. We also needed extra jobs like PAT testing, an emergency lighting test, and a smoke alarm test — they were really helpful and booked us in for the following week. Fast, reliable and thorough. Highly recommended
We provide Legionella Risk Assessments across the UK, supporting commercial property owners, landlords, housing providers, managing agents, contractors and organisations responsible for maintaining safe, compliant buildings.
Our surveyors regularly work across:
• Greater Manchester (Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)
• Merseyside (Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Southport, Knowsley, Sefton)
• Cheshire (Chester, Warrington, Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich, Ellesmere Port, Wilmslow)
• Lancashire (Preston, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Accrington, Rossendale, Chorley, Lancaster)
• West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Dewsbury, Batley)
• South Yorkshire (Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley)
• North Yorkshire (York, Harrogate, Scarborough, Ripon, Selby, Skipton)
• East Midlands (Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire)
• Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Burton upon Trent)
• West Midlands (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell)
• North East (Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Durham)
• East Anglia (Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Peterborough)
• Greater London (Central, North, South, East, West London)
• Kent (Maidstone, Canterbury, Medway, Ashford, Dartford, Tunbridge Wells)
• Surrey (Guildford, Woking, Reigate, Epsom, Redhill)
• Essex (Chelmsford, Colchester, Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Harlow)
• South Coast (Hampshire, Sussex, Portsmouth, Southampton, Brighton, Eastbourne)
• South West (Bristol, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Plymouth, Exeter, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Taunton)
• South Wales (Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil)
• Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling, Perth)
Legionella Risk Assessments are commonly required for commercial buildings, offices, schools, healthcare premises, hotels, leisure facilities, rental properties, residential buildings with shared water systems, and supported housing and social accommodation. They’re also required for other premises where water systems could present a risk of Legionella bacteria developing.
Supported housing and social accommodation are a particular focus area, as regulators including Ofsted, the CQC and the Regulator of Social Housing routinely request evidence of a current Legionella Risk Assessment as part of their inspections and registration requirements.
If you’re unsure whether your property requires a Legionella Risk Assessment, our team can help you understand your responsibilities.
If Legionella is found in your water system, it doesn’t automatically mean people have been exposed or that your building needs to close. However, it does mean you should take action as soon as possible.
The next steps will depend on the level of bacteria detected and the type of water system. This may include flushing the system, disinfecting pipework, removing areas of stagnant water, adjusting water temperatures, and carrying out follow-up testing to confirm the issue has been resolved. Your Legionella risk assessment should also be reviewed to identify why the bacteria developed and ensure your control measures remain effective.
Taking prompt action helps protect building occupants, maintain compliance with your legal responsibilities, and keep your water system safe.
The responsibility usually sits with the Duty Holder. Depending on the property, this may be the employer, building owner, landlord, managing agent or another person with responsibility for controlling the property’s water systems. The Duty Holder is responsible for ensuring Legionella risks are assessed and managed appropriately.
You may need one, especially if you don’t have an up-to-date asbestos register. For buildings built or refurbished before 2000, asbestos should be presumed to be present unless there is strong evidence otherwise. This is particularly important when maintenance or refurbishment could disturb hidden materials. An Asbestos Survey can establish what is present, where it is and its condition, giving you the information needed to manage the risk.
We often work with providers who need to manage several areas of compliance (Fire, Legionella, Asbestos, Gas, Damp) across the same property.
If you’re looking to get your asbestos compliance in order, you can find out more about our Asbestos Surveys.
Potentially, yes. A Legionella Risk Assessment focuses on water systems and the risk of Legionella, while fire safety needs to be considered separately. Many of our clients arrange both alongside each other to keep their property compliance in check.
Find out more about our Fire Risk Assessments.
Any building constructed before 2000 is likely to contain asbestos. Under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, you need a survey before any refurbishment or demolition work starts.
We carry out asbestos management and refurbishment surveys, identify any asbestos-containing materials and give you a clear, legally compliant record.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for any non-domestic premises must ensure a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment is in place.
We carry out the full assessment, document the findings clearly and give you a prioritised action plan.
Compliance in supported housing is a different beast.
It has stricter frameworks, sector-specific requirements and a very different set of responsibilities.
We have a specialist division built entirely for it. Same one-stop-shop approach, built specifically for housing providers, care organisations and nominated individuals managing property compliance.
