Pool Safety Inspection

Maintaining pool fences and safety barriers is essential to reduce the number of young children drowning and serious immersion injuries in pools.

Queensland's current pool safety standard was introduced on 1 December 2010 and all pools, new and existing, must comply with the standard. It is a requirement that all pools in Queensland be fenced and registered on the pool safety register. The pool safety register includes a record of pools in Queensland and pool safety certificates issued. Queensland Government legislation allows Council to issue on-the-spot fines for pool fencing not complying with the standards.

A pool safety certificate, is required when selling, buying or leasing a property with a pool. Pool  safety certificates are valid for one year for a shared pool and two years for a non-shared pool. 

Inspection Process

Once the Pool Safety Inspection has been completed, the pool will be found to be Compliant or Non-Compliant.

Compliant
If the pool is deemed fully compliant, we will issue the relevant Pool Safety Certificate.  

Non-Compliant
If your pool is not deemed compliant, then the owner will be issued with a Non-conformity Notice (Form 26), as well as a report detailing all the items needing correction and will have 90 days to address all the items. Once all issues have been rectified, we will be able to re-inspect the pool so a Pool Safety Certificate can be issued. 

By law, the pool must be entered in the pool register as Non-compliant, and re-inspection will need to be completed by the same inspector (Tom) so that a Pool Safety Certificate can be issued, and the pool registered as compliant.

If you would like to book your Pool Safety Inspection, call us on
07 3369 5231 or email hello@onehomeinspections.com.au.