New Jersey Swimming Pool Safety Code

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Enacted 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 regulation is planned to prevent swimming pools jeopardies. The dangers of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often out of sight and lethal.

The Act gave U.S. CPSC criteria for pool and spa safety. Under the act, all drain covers must match ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007 in all public swimming pools and Spas. The water facilities which have a single main drain different than an unblockable drain must establish a second system to contend for entrapments.

The manufacturing, the trade or retail of drain covers which are not in compliancy with the protection criteria required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers purchasable in the marketplace are compliant with safety specs.

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

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

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