There are 2 options available to landlords who are renting out domestic property. These are clearly stated by the HSE website. Here at The Legionella Risk Assessment Registers we are focused on delivering the correct options to landlords. These are :

1. You can undertake the Legionella Risk Assessment yourself as long as you feel competent to do so, at www.lraregister.co.uk we provide a clear step by step guide which gives you all the information you need to produce your own Legionella Risk Assessment for your tenant. Once you have followed the step by step guide you simply input the information gathered from your property into the online assessment software and your completed assessment is created and delivered to you by email instantly. The cost for this service is £12.95. You are then covered with a date and time stamp of when you completed and registered your Legionella Risk Assessment.

ALSO PROVIDING LANDLORDS WITH LEGIONELLA RISK ASSESSMENT PROVIDERS SINCE 2015.

2. You can appoint an independent Legionella Risk Assessor to undertake the assessment for you. There are many reasons why a landlord may not wish to do their own assessment. If the property is a fair distance away it may be more financially viable to use a local independent assessor, maybe you have issues with your tenant and you do not wish to visit the property or it could be that you just prefer to have an independent assessment. In this case please see www.lraregister.com where you can find a local assessor who will undertake your assessment at a reasonable cost.

There are many rental properties that have not had a Legionella Risk Assessment undertaken and these landlords are leaving themselves liable to large fines for non compliance.

Don't be one of those Landlords that ignores their responsibilities. Produce your Legionella Risk Assessment today and it will be officially lodged on our register for download at any time. If asked, you can then direct anyone to LRA Register to see the assessment is completed and lodged.

If you wish to undertake your own assessment then please read our step by step guide to completing your Legionella Risk Assessment.

On October 1st 2015 the House of Commons issued a briefing paper to clarify the legal requirements for landlords with regards to Legionella Risk Assessments.

This gives specific clarification that all landlords operating rental properties must undertake a Legionella Risk Assessment on each rental property they own.

Whilst many landlords understandably do not agree with this regulation the fact remains it is legally required.

Legionella Risk Assessment Guide

The step by step guide provided at LRA Register provides enough information to enable a landlord comply with the requirement in a few easy steps.

The system lodges the report on a central register with the date and time stamp of when the report was done and when it was lodged clearly recorded. If there is any issue later on it can be proven when the report was lodged.

The purpose of a Legionella Risk Assessment for your rental properties is to ensure that you have taken sufficient note of the possibility of Legionella in your water system and to give practical advice to your tenants, which will be contained in our prepopulated risk assessment template.

If a tenant were to become ill with Legionella and a risk assessment has not been carried out the Health and Safety Executive would take legal action against the landlord or agent.

Landlords have reported fees of up to £125 being charged for an outside contractor to do the assessment whilst the Health and Safety Executive have made it clear that: “Provided that the property is low risk (which includes most residential settings including houses or flats with small domestic type water systems where the water turnover is high) there is no reason why the landlord should not carry out the risk assessment themselves, provided that they are adequately knowledgeable about the water system in the property”.

If you prefer to have an assessor do the risk assessment for you please visit lraregister.com where you will find our directory of Legionella Risk Assessors who will conduct your assessment at a fair price.