Chris,

There is no reason what-so-ever. The person who gave you this information is either misinformed or lying.

Regards

Both of the above are absolutely right, I suggest they are trying to keep the work for themselves, as it is a nice little earner. Our caretaking staff do the majority of our water temeperature checks, including sentinel taps etc etc using an infra thermometer. Basic stuff. We do have a contractor that does an idependant check and takes the water samples etc. But there is no reason why most routine temp checks can't be done 'in house'.

Aas pe previous replies we do use our in-house FM team to carry out weekly, monthly and six monthly checks. They all attended a legionella awareness session to fully understand why we are doing the checks and as long as checks are done by competant ops and results recorded I don't see any problem doing in-house.