POOL LAW - stipulates approved safety devices

The fact that you can be held accountable for a drowning in your swimming pool even if the child or adult did not have persmission to swim in it,  will cause any one who owns a pool to find out about pool law.  Homeowners can only hope to escape prosecution if all safety precautions in the law have been stringently adhered to.

There are many laws concerning swimming pools, and these laws change from province to province and city to city – the bottom line is understanding the pool law of your city and making your pool safe, because any person guilty of contravening these by-laws may be liable to a conviction of a fine or possible jail time.  

Pool law has come about after a number of drownings in private pools. The NSRI has repeatedly shown that children under two are the most susceptible, with a huge percentage of drownings occurring in private homes.

Pool owners are only going to be given a couple of years to comply fully with pool law. You will be required to enclose your pools with a fence or wall not less than 1,2 meters in height with a gate which has a self closing and self-locking device. When not in use, it will be required that all outdoor swimming pools must have a pool cover or must be fitted with a pool alarm when the pool is not in use.

Our Pool Protector alarm is an 'L' shaped sysem mounted on the edge of the pool with two alarms – one on the unit and one on the remote sensor in the house. This alarm is permanently activated ready to sound off when sensing disturbance of the water.

The pool law applies to all swimming pools regardless of the date of construction. Copies of the draft by-law can be obtained from a number of offices. The penalty for non-compliance is simply too great to ignore – a pool without an alarm or fence is a matter of life and death.

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