Swimming Pool Scene NEWS
Raising Awareness of Entrapment Dangers
With the school summer holidays in full swing, a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of some swimming pools is being supported by the distributors of a leading pool safety release system.
Every year incidents of so-called ‘entrapment’ – where limbs and other body parts are caught via strong suction from drains at the bottom of either private or public pools - are reported in the media, tragically because the event often results in drowning. Shocking statistics from the UK National Drowning Prevention Strategy show that drowning is the second highest cause of accidental deaths of children under fi ve years in England. Prompted by the fi ndings, MSI, distributor of the Vac-Alert pool safety system, has become a supporter of Swimming Pool Entrapment Hazard Prevention Group (SPEHP), a not-for-profi t organisation set up and run by volunteers in three European countries, to educate consumers. Bob Kent, MSI’s MD, said: “One of the challenges is the low level of consumer awareness that the problem even exists. “We greatly admire SPEHP’s passion and initiative to bring this issue, once and for all, to the wider public and industry.”
ABOVE: Tragic cases of drowning usually attract headline news.
SPEHP was started by Aileen Byrne at Brio Group UK, a health and safety training company for the pool sector, Joost Avezaat of Blue Cap Foundation in the Netherlands and Alex Gob, of Parents4Safety in Germany.
Cryptosporidium Forces Double Pool Closure
Two Birmingham swimming pools were forced to close following a number of cases of the cryptosporidiosis diarrhoea and vomiting bug.
Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre was initially closed in
ABOVE: Cryptosporidium was found in the water at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre.
June for thorough cleaning after a customer accidently defecated in the water. As a precaution, Northfi eld Leisure Centre was also closed. West Midlands Health Protection Team had been notifi ed of a number of cases of Cryptosporidium in the Birmingham area and discovered a common factor that several of those people had used the Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre pool. Tests were undertaken and confi rmed the presence of Cryptosporidium. Dr Huda Mohamed, consultant with PHE West Midlands Health Protection Team, said: “Birmingham Community Leisure Trust has undertaken a thorough deep cleaning of the pool and fi lters and following further independent testing, we are content that all traces of Cryptosporidium have been removed from the pool and there is no further risk to the health of the public. “The Trust has taken the matter very seriously and we are both reassured and extremely satisfi ed with the extensive action undertaken. There have been no new cases linked to the pool since its closure.”
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