Safety and sustainability from a single pool cover – the PowerPlastics Solid Safety ticks all the boxes.
The PowerPlastics Solid Safety Cover is the leading child safety pool cover in South Africa, favoured for its tamperproof design, overall aesthetics and its ability to create a more sustainable pool.
The PVC cover is supported by batons that rest on the coping and the tension is created with ratchets, providing a complete barrier over the pool. The upside to the water being sealed off to the natural elements is that the cover also saves water, electricity and chemicals.
Parts of South Africa are experiencing water shortages due to either drought or struggling infrastructure, so the need to save water is critical. A solid safety cover gives 98% water savings. And because the water is kept cleaner, the amount of chemicals and filtration needed is reduced. This could have a huge impact on alleviating load shedding if every pool was filtered less. Add these savings up month by month, coupled with safety benefits, and you will find yourself getting a lot more out of your pool – child safety as well as sustainability and a reduced carbon footprint from one pool cover, putting your mind at ease on multiple levels. This is what makes safety covers stand out when compared to other safety methods like nets and fences which still leave the water exposed to the natural elements.
PowerPlastics Pool Covers first designed the PowerPlastics Solid Safety Cover, which has gone on to become the bestselling cover to prevent drownings. The cover tolerates 220kg and can be semi-automated to allow for single-person use.
There is no substitute for adult supervision but by using the PowerPlastics Solid Safety Cover as one ‘layer of safety’, you will achieve further peace of mind as well as rescuing your household budgets.
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The call is for security within a 5m perimeter of the pool and can be obtained with walls, fences with self-locking gates, pool nets and/or safety pool covers. One of these needs to be readily available on a site to ensure child safety and enable the pool to meet the recommendations of SANS 10134 and international swimming pool safety standards.
In tragic incidents where children have drowned, the duties of the homeowner in building a safe pool need to be clarified. The duties and responsibilities of child caregivers on sites where there are pools also need to be clearly understood. Often children are left with a responsible person, but at what age is a child termed a responsible adult? Age 14? And does that person know who to call if things go wrong, are they trained in first responder CPR? Surely prevention is an easier route than trying to respond to a drowning.
As building professionals, the design of a pool and its future safety is of critical importance. Pools should also be made safe as properties transfer from one owner to the next and circumstances change.
“These are critical discussions that must take place to ensure a fair and reasonable approach to swimming pools but not overshadowing fundamental safety. Child drownings are almost always preventable accidents if the correct measures of pool safety are applied.
“If you look at the automotive industry, no car is made without seatbelts, and it is the law that every child must wear one. The same for pools. Each pool must be safe. Even if you don’t have children, you are still going to have children visiting the home. Consider how many drowning tragedies involve the children of domestic workers who occasionally accompany parents to work,” says Bester.
PowerPlastics Pool Covers was instrumental in helping SABS create a space for pool safety within building Standards. This discussion, which goes further than just talking about safety, will hopefully produce some more concrete steps to ensure a meaningful reduction in child drownings in private pools.
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