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Legionella awareness
for hospitality

Legionella grows quietly in the systems hotels depend on — showers, spa pools, storage tanks, that guest wing that sat empty all winter. This course trains your team to understand the risk and run the controls that keep water safe.

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Your certificate

The certificate is the point — so we guarantee it.

The moment you pass, this is issued in your name — carrying a unique ID and a QR code any employer or inspector can check in seconds.

Food Safe Ireland Certificate of Completion

This certificate is awarded to

Sinéad Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh

for successfully completing

Legionella Awareness Training

This certificate confirms the successful completion of Legionella Awareness Training with Food Safe Ireland — issued in the learner's name, carrying a unique ID, and verifiable by any employer or inspector in seconds.

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Certificate IDFSI-8K3D-2Q7X-M4PA
Date of Issue14 May 2026
Valid Until14 May 2029
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Accepted by your employer — or your money back If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full. Terms and conditions apply.

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Why hospitality

The risk that lives in the pipes.

Legionnaires' disease comes from inhaling contaminated water droplets — and hospitality produces exactly the conditions it loves: warm stored water, long pipe runs, showers in every room and outlets that sit unused between bookings. This course covers where the bacteria grows, the temperature and flushing controls that stop it, and the monitoring records a business is expected to keep.

Most teams need more than one course. Get every course your team needs on one plan. See All Access plans →
Inside the course

Legionella Awareness: what you'll actually learn.

Built for buildings like yours

Hotels, guesthouses, spas and restaurants — tanks, calorifiers, showers and seasonal wings.

Multiple-choice assessment

A 70% pass mark is required. If you don't pass first time, retakes are free — there's no extra charge and no catch.

Certificate valid 3 years

Issued instantly with a unique ID and QR code. Your employer can verify it in seconds.

By the end, you'll be able to

  • Understand what legionella is and how people are exposed
  • Map where risk lives in a hospitality water system
  • Run the temperature checks and flushing that control it
  • Handle low-occupancy periods and reopening safely
  • Keep the monitoring records a duty-holder is expected to show
  • Know when a problem needs escalating to a specialist
Free sample · no sign-up needed

Try it before you buy it.

See exactly what the training is like — watch a sample lesson from the course and test yourself with a quick knowledge check. No account, no email, no catch.

Sample lesson
How Legionella spreadsTaken directly from the course — exactly as paying learners see it
Knowledge checkQuestion 1 of 3

Legionella bacteria grow best in water at:

20–45°C is the growth zone — which is why hot water is stored above 60°C and cold kept below 20°C.

People catch Legionnaires' disease by:

It's inhaled, not drunk — fine droplets from showers, taps and spa pools. That's why aerosol-producing outlets get the attention.

A guest-room shower that's been unused for weeks should be:

Stagnant warm water is where Legionella grows. Flushing little-used outlets weekly is one of the simplest controls there is.

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That's a taste of it. The full course covers everything an inspector — or a bad day — can throw at you, and the certificate proves it.

Enrol now — €19
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Questions

Legionella Awareness questions, answered plainly.

Anyone with a hand on the water system or the records — maintenance staff, housekeeping supervisors, duty managers and owners. In smaller properties that's often one person wearing all four hats.

Duty-holders in Ireland are expected to assess and control legionella risk in their water systems, and to keep records showing the controls happen. This course covers the awareness level — what the risk is, how the controls work and what to record.

No — it's awareness-level training for typical workplaces: hotels, guesthouses, offices and leisure facilities. If you run industrial cooling towers or a water-treatment plant, you need specialist training beyond this course.

About 45 minutes, and you don't have to do it in one go. Your progress saves automatically, so you can stop and pick up where you left off on any device.

No — and that's deliberate. Lessons unlock in order, and each video has to be watched through before the next opens. It's still self-paced: stop, resume and rewatch whenever suits. But nobody can skip to the assessment, which is exactly why the certificate is worth accepting.

You retake it, free. There's no charge for additional attempts — we'd rather you knew the material than paid us twice.

The moment you pass. It's issued instantly in your name with a unique ID and QR code, ready to download, print or send on. It's valid for three years.

Then you get your money back. If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full on production of a letter confirming it. Terms and conditions apply.

Yes, and there's no minimum spend. Buy seats, add your team, and manage everyone's progress and certificates from your dashboard — from your very first seat. Seat pricing drops at 2, 5, 20 and 50 seats.

Sources · Health and Safety Authority · Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
Listed for reference. Your own procedures, and the officer inspecting your premises, are what govern your business.

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