Utah Swimming Pool Safety Code

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Signed by the U.S. President Bush on December 2007, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (P&SSAct) is in effect since the December 19, 2008. This regulation is designed to foreclose swimming pools hazards. The perils of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often lying in wait and fatal.

The Act determined U.S. CPSC criteria 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 installations which have only one main drain different than an unblockable drain must install a second device to fight out entrapments.

The manufacturing, the trade or retail of drain covers which are not in compliance with the safety measures required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers available in the marketplace are compliant with safety stipulations.

Each public pools must establish anti-entrapment drain covers and enforce other layers of protection such as safety vacuum release systems or fences.

A swimming 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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