Time to replace your safety pool cover?
As pool season approaches, ensuring your pool is equipped with a reliable and durable safety cover is essential.
Embracing Pool Safety
As an Olympic swimmer and a water safety expert for Leslie’s, Cullen Jones understands the importance of water safety. However, that connection began long before his swimming career when at 5 years old, he nearly drowned at a water park.
The NPC Start-up Procedure
The importance of a good start-up procedure cannot be overstated. It provides balanced water to protect the finish and equipment and sanitizes water for the protection of swimmers.
Here to Spray
Many are opting for spray parks over swimming pools
The Clear Red Line
If a pool technician can’t persuade a reluctant customer to replace a feeble pump or a weathered liner, no big deal. Their pool, their choice — onto the next job. But sometimes, a tech is obligated to not take “no” for an answer. Pools that aren’t properly installed or maintained can be death traps, and…
Starting a Safety Committee
Meeting on a regular basis, monthly or quarterly, a safety committee should stay up to date on what regulations might help create a safer workplace; discuss any injuries or incidents in the company; and recommend policies to help prevent further safety failures. The safety committee at Armond Aquatech Pools in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, comprises four people…
Safety Technology
Shock Alert This summer, there were so many reports of deaths from electrical shock in water that the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals issued a special statement. The majority of those accidents happened around boat docks, not in swimming pools, but tragedy can occur anywhere water and electricity meet. While you may follow all…
New Device Helps Keep Swimmers Safe from Lightning
The INO Weather Pro handheld weather-monitoring device detects the distance of cloud-to-ground lighting strikes up to 40 miles. It also displays temperature, atmospheric pressure and humidity. The display dashboard is customizable so users can view information important to them. “Though most lightning detection technology relies on national weather data feeds and requires an internet or…