While there are a limited number of companies in South Africa capable of producing safety products for swimming pools, the real issue lies in the resistance or ignorance of the wider industry, and the public, to such safety covers. The SA Bureau of Standards (SABS) has been through a public participation process to agree the … Read More
As a swimming pool builder, I was pleased to be invited to contribute to this important forum on pool safety. Nobody wants to live with knowing they contributed to ending the life of another person, let alone a child – surely the worst thing to live with. We all have enough stress in our normal … Read More
Pool safety is paramount wherever there is a swimming pool and in particular, pools used by many people at one time i.e. public municipal pools and school pools. At Paul Roos Gymnasium, a school of some 1200 boys, it is extremely important therefore for rules and regulations to be in place, and to ensure these … Read More
By now everybody within the City of Johannesburg knows that I have been punting the idea of swimming pool safety, and for a long time too. Unfortunately we still lose children every year, especially those under 7 years of age, to drowning. And most of these are drownings in private / domestic swimming pools. When … Read More
In Memory Of Reece Howes 23.6.1991 – 20.11.1993 My baby Reece drowned in our home swimming pool when he was just 2 years old. I can still see his face so clearly. Today he would have been 20 years old. I sit and ask myself so many questions – what would he have looked like? What … Read More
