Pool Safety Equipment

Pool safety equipment helps pool owners in ensuring pool safety, whether it is a private residential or a commercial pool. Children fatalities caused by swimming pools are hardly negligible that many municipalities have bylaws concerning the use of pool safety equipment – requiring enclosure with pool fences to prevent unauthorized access.

Pool safety equipment include technologically advanced, computer-aided drowning detection instruments which have the ability to discover incidents of drowning while they are happening and set off an alarm to alert lifeguards so that an intervention can be done. Pool safety equipment, like the Poseidon system, has saved a significant number of lives and such an investment can be perceived as invaluable. Pool safety equipment with alarm systems are more commonly used in public pools than in residential ones because the drowning is bad publicity for business and therefore cannot be risked. These factors drive business owners to have a greater desire for safety, and in turn, work for the benefit of the majority of commercial pool users.

Another kind of pool safety equipment that features an alarm works in a different manner. Placed on the inground pool, it does not detect any instances of drowning. It rather detects entry of children, pets, or intruders into the pool and sets off an alarm to alert adults within the area. Other alarms can be activated at pool gates and back doors leading to the backyard pool to detect and restrict unauthorized access to the pool.

Probably the simplest piece of pool safety equipment that can be used in residential pools is the pool safety net. These nets are more applicable for private pool use due to their affordability and ease of use.The pool safety net has successfully proven itself to be useful and have incredible value. It has been used in many countries for over 25 years. It is easy to use, and can be custom fitted even to irregularly shaped swimming pools.

Pool safety nets can be easily placed when needed by infants and toddlers, and removed when it is the adults’ time to use the pool. The mesh size of the pool safety net is measured at approximately 10 centimeters, and such size cannot possibly allow the smallest toddler’s head to fit through. The polyethylene braids are usually UV treated to stand and prevent wear from constant exposure to the sun. Each strand has a breaking strain of 135 kilograms, enabling full-size adults to use the safety net as well. There is virtually no drowning risk for children with pool safety nets because they are not submerged in the water.