Hot Tub & Swim Spa Scene TRAINING


ABOVE: The hot tub sector is experiencing huge investment in training and knowledge.


The company backs up its training with video links on You Tube to reinforce best practice and techniques. A level of support that is appreciated by dealers such as Rob Carlin of Superior Spas. “The industry is still very far from where it needs to be,” says Rob. ”More certainly needs to be done.


“The industry has little knowledge on hot tub technical and holiday let compliance for instance,” Rob continues. “The HSG282 regulations seem complicated and there are many interpretations by different hot tub dealers and distributors.” Ross Alcock from the Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers


agrees: “I think there’s probably always a demand for training at all levels, with new things to learn and become aware of. “While I can’t speak for the training offered by other industry organisations, such as BISHTA and PWTAG, I can say that the ISPE has a number of ISPE-endorsed training providers who deliver site-specific and/or general pool and spa plant training, to the latest standards and guidelines, to those on the commercial side of the industry, from hotels and schools to large leisure centres, clubs, holiday parks and everything in between, and, in some cases, deliver this training all over the world.”


Currently there are four companies who deliver ISPE-endorsed training: Studies in Work, Flowman Leisure, PALM Academy and Leisure Safety Training. Details of the ISPE-endorsed training providers are available on the ISPE website. Earlier in 2017, the ISPE launched its Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Scheme and a number of companies within the pool and spa trade have been offering free-to-attend CPD training


sessions on a wide range of subjects, including, for example, spa chemicals, which will be expanded in the coming months. These training sessions are open to all in the industry and individuals may join the ISPE CPD scheme and benefit from the training being offered, whether they are ISPE members or not. The ISPE will continue to feature spa-related regulations, standards and guidelines within the ISPE Workshops at SPATEX and at the Institute seminars, including, for example, the launch of the new PWTAG book and HSG 282 ‘The Control of Legionella and Other Infectious Agents in Spa-pool Systems’.


Ross adds: “In the future, we hope to launch a new ISPE workshop looking at spa maintenance for pool and spa engineers and produce more technical papers related to spas.” Despite the industry being established now in the UK, training and education is still in short supply. Chris Brady of SpaTech Training reflects: “The pool sector, being a more developed industry has some great training and education programmes in place, however the hot tub sector has been neglected in the list area over the years and as a result has been blighted by unprofessional undertakings and is a soft target for the fly-by-night traders and low quality far eastern imports which have flooded the industry. “As a formal professional aeronautical engineer working within the military, my former industry and this one are gulfs apart, however, after many years of waiting for the industry to improve to no avail,” Chris explains.


“I decided enough was enough and the industry needed more Hot Tub & Swim Spa Scene TRAINING 17


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