Home Swimming Pools
Home Pool Safety and Legal Requirements
Do you have a swimming pool in your backyard?
Maybe just an inflatable kiddy pool or a portable Intex frame pool from Big W or Clark Rubber?
Home Pool Safety and Legal Requirements
Do you have a swimming pool in your backyard?
Maybe just an inflatable kiddy pool or a portable Intex frame pool from Big W or Clark Rubber?
The home pool can be a place of fun and enjoyment.
However they can also be dangerous, particularly for children under 5 years of age.
Portable swimming pools take several forms and include inflatable pools, pools incorporating a canvas or flexible plastic liner attached to a frame, and hard plastic pools such as wading pools.
Depths vary from less than 150mm to over one metre.
Portable pools pose a serious drowning risk to small children.
They also present a risk because owners are generally not aware of the need in most States and Territories to fence a portable pool that is 300mm deep or more.
Children have also drowned in portable pools that have not been emptied and put away after use.
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- Queensland Building and Construction Commission
- Queensland Building and Consturction Commission - Pools and Safety Booklet