About
It takes a team to prevent Legionnaires’ disease. That's why LRM provides a multidisciplinary team of professionals who collaborate with you to help you meet your Legionella water safety needs.
Our mission is to provide the most professional legionella, water hygiene support services to businesses and organisations throughout Barbados. We will do this by ensuring we provide a pro-active, highly professional responsive service, underpinned with experience, scientific knowledge, accuracy, backed by attention to detail and competence.
Services
Facility Risk Assessments
If you require competence, you have come to the right place
Water Management Plans
Build Your Water Quality Management Plan
Building Disinfection
We perform Emergency & Standard Disinfection
F.A.Q
Where are Legionella found?
Legionella exist naturally in water and moist soil. They have been found in creeks and ponds, hot and cold water taps, hot water tanks, water in air conditioning cooling towers and evaporative condensers, and soil at excavation sites.
What is Legionnaires' disease (Legionellosis)?
Legionnaires' disease (Legionellosis) is a bacterial disease that causes severe pneumonia.
What are the usual symptoms of Legionnaires' disease?
The early symptoms of Legionnaires' disease may be flu-like with muscle aches, headache, tiredness and dry cough followed by high fever, chills and occasionally diarrhea. Temperatures commonly reach 102-105 degrees Fahrenheit and chest X-rays often show pneumonia.
Who gets Legionnaires' disease?
Most healthy individuals do not become infected with Legionella bacteria after exposure. People at higher risk of getting sick are those 50 years of age or older, current or former smokers, those with a chronic lung disease (like COPD or emphysema), those with a weak immune system from diseases like cancer, diabetes, or kidney failure, and people who take drugs that suppress (weaken) the immune system (like after a transplant operation or chemotherapy).
How is Legionnaires' disease spread?
The disease appears to be spread through the air from a soil or water source. All studies to date have shown that person-to-person spread does not occur.
How soon do symptoms occur/appear?
The incubation period for Legionnaires' disease ranges from two to 10 days, but is usually five to six days.
How severe is the illness?
Legionnaires' disease can be a mild respiratory illness or it can be severe enough to cause death. Death rates range from 5% to 30%
Contact
- Kingsland Christ Church
