Guidelines, Standards, and Laws

This page was updated on December 5, 2019.

Standard

Legionellosis
Risk management for building water systems. ANSI/ASHRAE standard 188–2015. Atlanta, GA: ASHRAE; 2015.

Minimizing the risk of legionellosis associated with building water systems.
ASHRAE guideline 12-2000external icon. Atlanta, GA: ASHRAE; 2000.
Cooling Tower Institute.
Legionellosis guideline: Best practices for control of Legionella.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Model aquatic health code.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Disinfection of hot tubs contaminated with Legionella.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever).

New York
Environmental health information related to Legionellosis in healthcare facilities.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Requirement to reduce Legionella risk in healthcare facility water systems to prevent cases and outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease [4 pages]. 2017.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. MMWR. 2003;52(RR-10):1–42.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Guidelines for preventing health-care-associated pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. MMWR. 2004;53(RR-3):1–36.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Guidelines for infection control in dental health-care settings, 2003. MMWR. 2003;52(RR-17).
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Prevention of healthcare-associated Legionella disease and scald injury from potable water distribution systems. VHA Directive 1061. 2014.
Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society.
Consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults, 2007.
Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society.
Management of adults with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: Clinical practice guidelines, 2016.

Environmental Protection Agency.
Safe drinking water act.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act.

Environmental Protection Agency.
Technologies for Legionella Control in Premise Plumbing [139 pages, 1.67 MB]