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NZS 8500:2006

Safety barriers and fences around swimming pools, spas and hot tubs

Assists people to avoid a swimming pool related drowning by presenting various options designed to deny, delay, or detect unsupervised entry to the swimming pool area. Options for the location of effective safety barriers that will restrict the access of young children to swimming pools are provided, and requirements for the design, construction and performance of fences, gates, retaining walls and door sets intended to form a barrier to restrict access of young children to swimming pools are specified. This Standard is intended to become a compliance document under the Building Code for new pools and to be used by territorial authorities in developing safe solutions for existing pools.

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Standards NZ References:

• 8690:2003(NZS)

Non Standards NZ References:

• ASTM F1346-91 (2003) Standard performance specification for safety covers and labeling requirements for all covers for swimming pools, spas and hot tubs


• ASTM F2208-02 Standard specification for pool alarms


• UL 2017-2002 UL Standard for safety general-purpose signaling devices and systems

NZ Act/Regulation References:

• BUILDING ACT 2004


• FENCING ACT 1978


• FENCING OF SWIMMING POOLS ACT 1987


• LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2002

Other References:

• New Zealand Building Code