The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has created a handbook that offers guidelines for pool barriers that can help prevent accidental drownings involving young children. Download the guide or click the image below.

Note that the following document is not CPSC standard and are not mandatory requirements. F.S. Chapter 515, the Residential Pool Safety Act, requires only one of four specified safety barriers for all swimming pools built after 2002. As a result, many backyard pools are dangerously exposed to young children. Florida Safe Pools recommends pool owners go beyond the minimum requirements and install the layers of protection mentioned on this web site.

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