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5 Pool Maintenance and Staffing Tips to Finish Your Summer Strong

Expert advice on: how to check your stabilizer levels, chemicals to keep on hand, staff training, test kits and even preparing to winterize your pool, check out our pool pro's advice for keeping your pool up and running like a well-tuned machine.

"Your staff was incredibly professional during the audit visit and we continue to appreciate and take action on the insight and information shared in your detailed audit report. The report has, without a doubt, made our pool a safer place for our staff and customers. Thank you!" ~Karen from Arizona Premier Pool Management LLC is pleased to offer facility and operational audit reports to pool owners and managers. Audit reports serve to validate your hard work, but also to invite fresh perspective into your operation. Our staff will visit and work closely with your staff to review the facility, facility...

  The Model Aquatic Health Code, or MAHC (pronounced by many as MOCK), is the recreational aquatic industry's collective attempt to write the absolute best pool design and operational code (or set of pool operating rules, guidelines, procedures, design standards, etc.) based on research, expert input and committee and stakeholder collaboration.  The MAHC is not legislation and swimming pools are not required to follow MAHC rules and recommendations, unless your state has adopted it as your official pool code.  The end goal for many involved in the MAHC would be the formal adoption of the MAHC by all cities, counties, and states as their official local...

Disclaimer: This article is written to expose operators to some potentially new ideas about diving board safety.  Every situation and installation is unique and in no way is this information to be interpreted as a complete safety plan for your unique situation.    Diving boards are a fun and entertaining attraction at a pool.  Kids love them, athletes compete on them, and risk managers hate them.  Sadly, many of the 3-meter diving boards around the country have been "risk-managed" out of facilities.  Several aquatic consultants have presented data at trade shows that indicate that the risk involved with 3m boards was overstated and exaggerated,...