New Mexico 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 effect since the December 19, 2008. This code is designed to foreclose swimming pools jeopardies. The perils of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often invisible and lethal.

The VGB Act settled U.S. CPSC measures for pool and spa security. Under the regulation, all drain covers must meet 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 set up a 2nd system to struggle entrapments.

The manufacture, the trade or distribution of drain covers which are not in conformity with the security measures required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers available in the market are compliant with safety stipulations.

Each public pools must set up anti-entrapment drain covers and implement other strata of protection such as safety vacuum release systems or barriers.

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