Oklahoma Swimming Pool Safety Code

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Enacted by the U.S. President Bush on December 2007, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (P&SSAct) is effective since the December 19, 2008. This code is designed to foreclose swimming pools hazards. The risks of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often invisible and fatal.

The Act settled U.S. CPSC standards for pool and spa safety. Under the act, each drain covers must fit ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007 in all public swimming pools and Spas. The water installations which have only one main drain other than an unblockable drain must install a 2nd system to struggle entrapments.

The industry, the sale or distribution of drain covers which are not in conformity with the security criteria required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers accessible in the marketplace are compliant with safety stipulations.

Each public pools must set up anti-entrapment drain covers and enforce other levels of protection such as SVRS or fences.

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

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