Pool Safe

Ashhurst Pool is now PoolSafe!!!! 

The PoolSafe Quality Management Scheme (PoolSafe) is an independent assessment of public pools to ensure that their operations and facilities are safe. There are currently 214 public pools in New Zealand and over 140 (141 now), of those are members of the PoolSafe scheme.

Jointly developed in 2001 by the New Zealand Recreation Association (NZRA) and Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ), PoolSafe is an industry led, voluntary management system designed by industry for industry to peer assess and moderate their delivery of public aquatic facilities services, with the direct intent to limit serious harm to their communities.

Part of PoolSafe is the Pool Alone policy - 

POOL ALONE POLICY

The Pool Alone Policy was developed in 1997 (revised in 2002) to provide a code of practice and policy on child safety to provide national consistency within facilities. The policy states:

Children under 8 must be actively supervised by a caregiver 16 or over (actively supervised means watching your child at all time; Able to provide immediate assistance).