Landlord Legal Duties for Water Safety
Landlords are legally responsible for making sure that any property they manage complies with health and safety law. This includes completing a legionella risk assessment.
Often, a basic risk assessment will do, but not in all cases.
Landlords must ensure all hot and cold-water systems, and other water systems present at their property are safe for use and won’t cause harm.
The risk from Legionella bacteria is one of the main water safety issues that landlords need to consider, and which should be managed to keep these risks under control.
Landlords who are renting out a domestic property, with simple water systems should not, under normal circumstances have too many concerns regarding Legionella bacteria… the associated risks of premises such as these are usually low.
However, it’s important to remember that every landlord must conduct a legionella risk assessment of a property they are renting out.
In many cases, a basic risk assessment should suffice, such as in the case of a rented house or flat.
However, in properties where a more complex or larger water system is in use, the risk assessment would need to be more complex and in-depth too.
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