Bottle Filling Stations’ Origins & Future
In most facilities, drinking water systems tend to fade into the background. They’re required by code and expected to work, but they’re rarely revisited...
Legionellosis Outbreaks! What Have We Learned?
The year is 2015. It’s August. The setting is a 400-plus-person veterans home in Quincy, Illinois. Quincy lies in west-central Illinois on the banks...
Beyond The Water Management Plan
For years, senior living operators facing a Legionella-related regulatory inquiry or legal action could point to one foundational defense: we had a water management...
ASSE 1071 & ASSE 1085
With this edition of Working Pressure magazine focused on health and safety, it is an ideal moment to highlight two ASSE standards that directly...
Certifying to ASSE 1085
In this article, I will be discussing the testing requirements of ASSE 1085, Performance Requirements for Water Heaters for Emergency Equipment. Because this article...
Standards & Health & Safety
One thing those in our industry can take pride in is that we make health and safety a priority. Modern plumbing is one of...
Backflow Prevention & Health and Safety Quiz
According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...
Plumbing For Health
In busy urban healthcare centers, safe water is as essential as medicine — yet it is often taken for granted until something fails. A...
Fire Protection: Water is the Hazard?
When we look at the required cross-connection protection, it is important to understand the system type, piping material, water supply to the system, and...
Protecting Our Water
Backflow may not be a household term, but it plays a significant role in safeguarding the health and safety of millions of people every...