The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served an Improvement
Notice in relation to a cooling tower at Wheatfield Road, Edinburgh
for allegedly failing to adequately control the risk of legionella.
The HSE has asked North British Distillery Company Ltd to ensure
appropriate controls are in place by 29 June 2012. The Notice
can be appealed by the company within 21 days of issue.
A number of people have contracted legionella in Edinburgh over the
last week and some remain seriously ill. No direct link has
been established as yet between the cooling tower to which the
notice applies and those who have contracted legionella.
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The original publication date for this article was 11/06/2012.
