Wisconsin Swimming Pool Safety Code

You MUST be in compliance with the LAW


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Residential Swimming Pools

All drain covers replaced in all pools, public and private, after December 19, 2008 must be listed to comply with the ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007. You can find the requierements in the Comm 90, Design and Construction of Public Swimming Pools and Water Attractions


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Public Swimming Pools

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


The Virginia Graeme Baker Act determined U.S. CPSC standards for pool and spa safety. Under the act, every drain covers must meet ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007 in all public pools and Spas. The water installations which have a single main drain different than an unblockable drain must install a second device to struggle entrapments.


The fabrication, the sale or retail of drain covers which are not in compliancy with the security standards required by the CPSC is prohibited in USA to ensure that all drain covers obtainable in the market place are conformable with safety stipulations.


Each public pools must put in anti-entrapment drain covers and implement other layers of security such as SVRS or fences.


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

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