Pool safety

Published 27 November 2006 Standards NZ issued its new standard on safety barriers & fences around swimming pools, spas & hot tubs on Friday, NZS 8500:2006. Standards NZ said the new pool barrier standard “assists people to avoid a swimming pool-related drowning by presenting various options designed to deny, delay or detect unsupervised entry to […]

Published 20 June 2006 Standards New Zealand has issued the new standard on swimming pool fencing for public comment. The submissions period opened on 19 June and closes on Friday 11 August. “The intention in developing the standard is that Parliament will be able to consider using it as a replacement for the schedule in […]

Published 8 December 2005 Waitakere campaigner Gary Osborne could have spent his morning more usefully yesterday lounging around his pool or tending to the new requirements the city council wants him to make good around it. Instead, he, his wife & a band of supporters went to the Henderson District Court to defend a council […]

Published: 7 March 2005 Longtime campaigner Gary Osborne has produced a 133-page book about his battle with Waitakere City Council over the fencing of his pool – and those of hundreds of others who have faced prosecution by the council. Mr Osborne’s book, Sitting on the fence, runs a brief history of the pool-fencing law […]

Published: 2 February 2005 155 Waitakere pool owners will be back in court over the next 7 weeks for a brief callover appearance, so a date can be set for hearing the city council’s action against them over allegedly inadequate pool fencing. The Waitakere District Court callover dates are 7 & 21 February & March, […]

Delegates to the Local Government Association conference in Auckland this week supported a North Shore City Council proposal to get the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act rewritten. The move comes just head of a High Court hearing on a controversial Waitakere case, from which a declaratory judgment is expected. North Shore mayor George Wood said […]