Quebec requiring all residential pools to meet safety standards regardless of age

by Dave Flaherty | May 26, 2021 1:35 pm

All residential pools in Quebec will be required to meet the province’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Regulations by July 2023. Pools built before November 2010 were previously exempted from the guidelines.[1]
All residential pools in Quebec will be required to meet the province’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Regulations by July 2023. Pools built before November 2010 were previously exempted from the guidelines.

Owners of pools built before November 2010 have two years to meet Quebec’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Regulations[2].

The province’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has announced pools built before that timeline will have to meet the regulations after previously having exemptions.

According to a CBC report[3], the changes were made based on a recommendation from several provincial coroners to reduce the risk of children drowning.

Some the measures pool owners must meet include:

Pools installed after July 1, 2021 will also need to meet the new regulations unless the contract to build was signed before and the construction is planned by Oct. 1, 2021.

Stricter rules for new pools include chain link fences with a mesh size of more than 30 mm (1.2 in.) and no structures or fixed equipment that could be used to climb the wall of a swimming pool or enclosure should be within 1 m (3.3 ft) of the pool.

Also, swimming pools with a diving board must meet standards aimed at preventing spinal cord injuries due to diving accidents, and no widows on a house should be situated within 1 m (3.3 ft) of a pool or enclosure (unless a minimum height of 3 m [9.9 ft] or having a maximum opening of 100 mm [3.3 in.).

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.poolspamarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DF_QuebecPoolSafety.jpg
  2. Residential Swimming Pool Safety Regulations: http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/showdoc/cr/S-3.1.02,%20r.%201
  3. CBC report: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pool-safety-quebec-rules-1.6034707

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