COVID-19: Recommendations for the Management of Building Water Systems at Risk from Legionella due to Unscheduled Building Closure.
COVID-19 has plunged the country into crisis and while everyone is aware of the health and safety issues relating to the country’s population, it is also important to consider the knock-on effect it is having on the water systems in buildings being shut-down temporarily. We have therefore compiled the attached guide for the Dutyholder which incorporates advice from the Government and other regulatory bodies about what should be done to minimise the proliferation of legionella, pseudomonas and other bacteria in their water systems.
COVID-19 Goodwater Update 17/03/2020
As the national situation around coronavirus COVID -19 continues to evolve and the advice is updated, we are keen to confirm our current service delivery objectives.
We continue to take a calm and precautionary approach to ensure the best service delivery outcome possible for all our customers and have a desire to help where we can with this current situation.
We are trying our very best in difficult conditions to prioritise our workload so that our water hygiene engineers and technicians can respond in a timely fashion to customer urgent requests, particularly in relation to legionella control.
Legionellosis is a bacterial disease affecting the respiratory system, so it is essential that stringent water hygiene is maintained to ensure the current problem is not compounded.
In saying this we recognise there is a fine line between maintaining vital services and containing the spread of the COVID – 19 virus and Goodwater will work tirelessly, using best practices, to meet individual contract requirements.
If you have any queries or we can further support and help in any way please call your Account Manager directly, or our main number 0118-9735003, or email to info@goodwater.co.uk.
Thank you for your continued support.
Goodwater MD Talks to SalesChange
Former Goodwater employee Matt King invited his former boss, our MD Martin King (no relation), to take part in a podcast to chat about Goodwater, the water treatment industry, and a whole array of subjects from staff engagement, to company culture and touching on other world issues like the environment, parenting and of course football…..
New Vans Join the Goodwater Fleet
In September 2019 we added four new shiny blue vans to our growing fleet – all fully liveried in the Goodwater style and with all mod cons designed to make our engineers’ travelling time from site to site as comfortable as possible.
The next batch are due in Spring 2020!
Aquatech 2019, Amsterdam
Aquatech Amsterdam is the world’s leading water trade show for process, drinking and wastewater with more than 1000 exhibitors and 25,000 experts from around the world.
Our Martin King (MD), Frank Butterworth (Technical Director) and Vik Bamra, (Technical Services Manager) attended in November to scour the halls for new inspiration, new products and innovations to keep Goodwater at the forefront of the water treatment and water hygiene industry in the UK.
This is the 10th Aquatech show we have attended and every time we find numerous networking opportunities, see old friends and current suppliers and come away with new ideas to push our business forward
Goodwater Achieves ISO 9001 Grade 1 Pass!
It gives us great pleasure to confirm that Goodwater Ltd has once again successfully passed its 2018 BS EN ISO 9001:2015 audit!
Operating a recognised national Quality Assurance System is one of the many things which mark Goodwater out from its competitors and in challenging times can make the difference between winning contracts and losing them.
It is to the great credit of our staff that we can offer our clients continued benefits from the high quality and in some cases upgraded products and services we offer, underpinned by our commitment to quality matters.
The Quality Team review and police our procedures every month but it is the collective efforts from our fantastic team that have enabled us to achieve BS EN ISO 9001:2015 certification with no non-conformances.
We always place great importance on development of our staff via training programmes, appraisal and graduate recruitment and this sustained drive towards improvement is at the heart of our Quality Policy.
In addition to our BS EN ISO 9001:2015 accreditation Goodwater also holds a number of other recognised industry certificates:
- CHAS
- Safe Contractor
- Construction Line
- LCA Code of Conduct
- HABC (Legionella Awareness training)
- UKAS ISO 17020 Accreditation as an inspection body for Legionella Risk Assessment
Another Successful AGM in our 31st Year!
In August we gave our fantastic team the afternoon off on a Friday as we gathered for the annual AGM at the North Hants Golf Club in Fleet. 2018-19 was an other fabulous year for Goodwater and after hearing an entertaining summary from Martin King our MD we then held the annual awards to recognise our individual and team achievements.
Trophies and prizes were given to:
- The best engineering team
- The top sales person
- The top sales team
- The best newcomer
- A variety of long service awards
- And the highly coveted Outstanding Achievement Award
Afterwards there was a buffet and open bar and everyone had a cracking afternoon enjoying each other’s company and achievements, as this selection of photos shows.