Washington 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 in effect since the December 19, 2008. This regulation is designed to foreclose swimming pools jeopardies. The risks of pools like body entrapments or disembowelments are more often out of sight and deadly.

The VGB Act determined U.S. CPSC standards for pool and spa security. Under the code, each drain covers must fit 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 put in a second system to struggle entrapments.

The fabrication, 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 accessible in the marketplace are compliant with safety specs.

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

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

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