This standard defines the performance requirements for those devices in order to reduce the downstream risk due to Legionella bacteria.

All candidates for ASSE 12080 Legionella Water Safety and Management Specialist Certification must successfully complete a 24-hour training course encompassing all aspects of ASSE Standard 12080, and successfully pass a 100-question written exam demonstrating core competencies in environmental testing, risk assessment, water safety and management programs, mitigation and remediation methods, construction and renovation and case investigation.

Anyone can become ASSE-12080 certified by completing 24 hours of approved education and then passing the ASSE-proctored exam.

Quickly-embraced thermostatic mixing-valve standard has become watered down.

ASSE 1004-2017: Performance Requirements for Commercial Dishwashing Machines has been designated as an American National Standard for the American National Standards Institute.

ASSE 1055-2016: Performance Requirements for Chemical Dispensing Systems, was designated as an American National Standard by ANSI and is available for purchase.

In October, ASSE International and Plumbers Without Borders launched a “Plumbing Term of the Day” campaign where every workday an industry term and its definition will be published on ASSE’s blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn social media sites.

Chemical dispensers require special attention to details.