Cooling towers investigated in Legionnaires’ outbreak

In reality the unit responsible has probablynow been cleansed and 'super-chlorinated' following the news of the outbreak and we may never know where it emanated from. Remember it takes up to 12 days just to analyse a water sample for the presense of the legionella bacteria.
The resources to carry out these inspections suddenly become available following these tragic deaths. It is a great pity that they were not available before allowing proactive inspections prior to the outbreak.
When and if they do find dangerous units they will prosecute in about four years time. Why does it take so long?
Why is it we only see prosecutions following fatalities?
I appreciate that they have funding problems but if they bacame proactive this may not have occured.
It seems there is a non-enforcement policy from HSE and EHO
Why don't we drink and drive? The noble reason is that we may cause harm to others. In reality we don't drink and drive because it is well policed and we could lose our licences.
But H&S inspections don't happen and when they do what happens; nothing
They need to issue improvement notices for minor hazards. prohibition notices for more serious and prosecutions for the worse. Send out a message and make industry sit up and take notice.
Then these sporadic outbreaks may stop.
Allen Wilson