West Ryde Library and its after-hours chutes are closed until further notice for essential safety repairs following a water leak from a nearby property. Our other libraries are still open.
The regulatory approach to managing cooling water systems in NSW was previously based on a prescriptive approach which required all cooling water systems to be managed according to the same set of minimum criteria. This has been replaced with a performance based (or risk management) approach which requires the individual characteristics and unique risks of each cooling water system to be assessed and controlled.
Building occupiers are required to ensure that there are six key safeguards in place for their cooling water systems:
Although the risk management approach requires cooling water systems to be maintained in accordance with AS/NZS 3666 Part 3 rather than Part 2, other parts of AS/NZS 3666 remain relevant for some aspects of managing cooling water systems.
These include:
The requirements for building occupiers to test for Legionella bacteria on a monthly basis and notify high ‘reportable test results’ to the local government authority commenced on 1 January 2018.