Child Safety Guide Line in Arizona for Pools

There are many child safety guide line about many different aspects of day-to-day life. I would like to discuss one in particular swimming pools.

I live in Arizona where one in four homes has a swimming pool in their backyard. Every year I see drowning after drowning on the news due to a lack of security around the pool. Most of these deaths could have been avoid by following the rules. In Arizona the law requires that any entrance into the pool area must have self-closing self-locking gates or doors. A fence of 5 feet high with self-closing gates must surround the pool if there are children living in the home and the doors to the pool are not self-closing and self-locking. Also any gate that the general public can access must be self-closing and self-locking. All locking mechanisms must be 5 feet from the ground.

If you are a homeowner you can do whatever you want at your own risk. Should something happen, although expect to be liable for the situation. If you are a renter the landlord must provide these safety provisions for you. If the home you are renting does not meet the Arizona laws they will be in trouble. Make your landlord do the right thing for your child's safety.

Simply following the law that is already in place would help to prevent many of the problems with owning a pool.