While pool staff regularly check both chlorine and pH levels to protect swimmers and their families from recreational water illnesses (RWIs) in public pools, it’s important you maintain your own pools chemical balance as well. Chlorine and pH are the first defense against germs that can make swimmers sick. Here’s information as posted by the…
Category: Pool Safety
How Swimming Can Reduce Health Care Costs
In a recent white paper by Dr. Tom Lachocki, CEO of the National Swimming Pool Foundation, Dr. Lachocki discusses how poor exercise habits, obesity, soaring healthcare costs and drowning — are related. In the paper, Dr Lachocki lays out a path toward a healthy and physically active society with fewer tragic water-related deaths and reduced…
Meritage Homes & Platinum Pools and Spas to Provide 500 Beginner Swim Lessons
Program kicks off on May 15 in honor of International Water Safety Day In an effort to keep Arizona kids safe this summer, Meritage Homes and Platinum Pools and Spas have partnered with the Valley of the Sun YMCA and donated $25,000 to provide beginner swim lessons for 500 children. “The Y and Platinum Pools…
Arizona Pool Owners Legal Responsibility.
Each year, too many children in Arizona are victims of drowning or near-drowning. Arizona legislature has passed laws in order to help protect children from gaining unsupervised access to residential pools. Here are a few of the requirements as posted by the ADHS Office of Environmental Health: Pool Enclosure Requirements At a residence with a…