Alabama Swimming Pool Safety Code

According to Alabama Department of Public Health, in ALABAMA in 2002, 62 unwilled DROWNING DEATHS happened, 1.4 per 100,000 people.
DROWNING is the second LEADING cause of INJURY-RELATED DEATHS in Alabama and the U.S. for children age 1-14, second only to road accidents.

The APDH Recommendations

• Never let children to swim without adult watch.
• When monitoring children, do not engage in distracting demeanors, such as talking or reading. Watch and listen continuously.
• Four-sided isolation fencing at least five feet high and equipped with self-closing and self-latching gates should be installed around pools and spas to expect access.
• Never leave floating toys that may appeal young children in or around a pool.
• Children should be inscribed in swimming lessons by age eight.
• Rafts, water wings, inner tubes and other air-filled swimming aids and toys are not safety devices and will not protect children from drowning.
• Teach water safety rules.

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The Public swimming pools in Alabama must be in compliance with the Federal Pool and Spa Safety Act

Signed by the U.S. President Bush on December 2007, the VGB Pool and Spa Safety Act (P&SSAct) is in force since the December 19, 2008. This code is designed to prevent swimming pools jeopardies. The perils of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often out of sight and lethal.

The VGB Act established U.S. CPSC standards for pool and spa insurance. Under the law, every drain covers must meet ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007 in all public pools and Spas. The water facilities which have only one main drain different than an unblockable drain must establish a 2nd device to contend for entrapments.

The fabrication, the trade or retail of drain covers which are not in conformity with the safety measures required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers accessible in the marketplace are compliant with safety specs.

Each public pools must set up anti-entrapment drain covers and implement other levels of security such as SVRS or barriers.

A pool contractor should verify that the pool and / or spa are compliant with the federal Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act.

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The requirements of Alabama state might be supplanted by local demands that are equal to or more restrictive than the state rules.
Baldwin County Codes
Jefferson County Codes