Swimming Pool Safety - Refresher

Duration: 1.5 Hours 
Investment: $180 incl GST
Delivery: Face 2 Face & Webinar

Please note: For accredited professionals, 1.5 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points are available for this session

 

Target Audience

Building officers, compliance officers, authorised officers, planning officers, private certifiers

 

Overview

Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in young children.
Most deaths occur in swimming pools that are located on private land, where swimming pool safety fencing or barriers are either not installed or are not compliant with the relevant legislative requirements. Council remains the statutory authority with the task of ensuring that swimming pool safety features are compliant, and when they are not, to take action to ensure any safety risks are addressed.  In order to fulfill this role, council officers must understand what the relevant legislative requirements are, and what enforcement action can be taken to ensure compliance.  

In this session, we will review the relevant requirements in relation to swimming pools safety features, including the legal obligations of landowners when selling their property, provide an overview of the key practice, legal and risk issues which may arise in the course of council inspections relating to swimming pools, and importantly set out some strategies for councils to consider in ensuring compliance action is effective.  

Key Learnings

• Review of relevant requirements in relation to swimming pool safety features;
• Review of obligations of a vendor and purchaser when selling a property which contains a swimming pool;
• Review of Practice Direction 8 – Swimming Pool Inspection Policy 2019 and council inspections relating to existing swimming pools generally; 
• Review of enforcement tools and action that may be taken by council in relation to breaches of the legislative requirements relating to swimming pool safety features, including a review of the existing draft template enforcement notices and emergency orders available through the LGA; and
• Review of recent ERD Court judgment

 

Facilitator

Aden Miegel – Environment & Planning – Norman Waterhouse Lawyers
Aden is a Principal in the Environment & Planning Team at Norman Waterhouse Lawyers.  This Norman Waterhouse Team is recognised as the largest of its kind in this State and is widely recognised as a leader in the provision of such advice to the local government sector in South Australia.

The Norman Waterhouse Local Government team is the largest of its kind in the State and is widely recognised as the leader in the provision of advice and representation to the local government sector in South Australia.  

 

Additional Information

For further information about the content of this program or to enquire about having this program brought ‘In-House’ to your council or to a ‘Council Hub’ near you please contact LGA Training on 8224 2000 or at training@lga.sa.gov.au.
 
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