The APSP/ANSI Standards Process

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APSP Standards Consensus Committee

John Bently, Rosebrook Carefree Pools, Inc. (producer)

Don Cesarone, Van Kirk & Sons, Inc. (producer)

Nathan Coelho • Master Spas, Inc. (producer)

Tony Hebert • Royal Fiberglass Pools, Inc. (producer)

Scott Heusser • Custom Pools, Inc. (producer)

Bill Kent • Horner Xpress South Florida (producer)

John O'Hare • Hayward Industries (producer)

John Romano • All American Custom Pools & Spas, Inc. (producer)

Bill Svendsen • S.R. Smith LLC (producer)

Leif Zars • Gary Pools, Inc. (producer)

Michael Beatty • Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (General Interest)

Louis Sam Fruia • Conroe Independent School Distirct (General Interest)

Connie Harvey • American Red Cross (General Interest)

Florence Higgins • Higgins Envr. Sol. (NEHA) (General Interest)

Wally James • Con-Serv Associates (General Interest)

Rick Root • World Waterpark Association (General Interest)

Albert Tursi • YMCA of the USA (General Interest)

Tony Mendez • Wyndham Worldwide (AH&Lodging Assn) (General Interest)

Gene Wells • Consultant (General Interest)

Don Witte • Consultant (General Interest)

Tom Allen • City of Mount Dora (BOAF) (Government/User)

Matt Danner • Madison County Inspection Dept. (Government/User)

Justin Dewitt • Illinois Dept. of Health

Gary Fraser • Washington State Dept. of Health (Government/User)

Stephen Keifer • Oregon Public Health Division (Government/User)

Wayne Jewell • City of Southfield (Government/User)

Kris Bridges • City of Martinsville, VA

Marc Mordue • Fairfax County (Government/User)

Kathleen Moore • Texas Dept. of State Health Services (Government/User)

Thomas Pitcherello • N.J. Dept. Of Community Affairs, Codes (Government/User)

Troy Whitfield (non voting) • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision (Government/User)

Bernice Crenshaw • APSP (Staff)

Carvin DiGiovanni • APSP (Staff)

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Standards Informaton :

APSP Standards Consensus Committee:

APSP has reaccredited its procedures with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a Standards Developing Organization. In doing so, APSP has created one standing standards consensus voting committee to ANSI ballot all 13 APSP pool and spa standards. This committee, the APSP Standards Consensus Committee, will replace the need to create 13 separate, independent canvass lists that must be reconstituted each time one of the 13 APSP standards comes up for ballot. This will effectively streamline the standards process and produce ANSI changes quickly and more efficiently.

The committee comprises 10 members from each of the following interest categories :

Producer. Manufacturer, builder, or installer of swimming pools, spas and hot tubs or components.

User. Any individual/entity that uses swimming pools, spas, swim spas and hot tubs or components. This includes but is not limited to federal, state, or local regulatory agency or department for public safety. The entity may also have the responsibility of regulating or monitoring swimming pools, spas, or hot tubs.

General Interest. An entity or individual with expertise in swimming pools, but that neither produces nor uses them directly. This category includes but is not limited to consultants, academia, insurance companies, testing laboratories (that test or certify pool and spa components against standards) public interest organizations, and “not-for-profits” having an interest in pools, spas/hot tubs.

View the Standing Consensus Committee

Click here for the operating procedures for the Standards Committee

Want to Join the Standards Consensus Committee?:
Committee members serve three-year terms and can be reappointed for a second three-year term. Anyone interested in serving on the committee should e-mail Carvin DiGiovanni.

APSP STANDARDS:

ANSI/APSP-1 2003 Standard for Public Swimming Pools

APSP-2 1999 Standard for Public Spas

APSP-3 1999 Standard for Permanently Installed Residential Spas

ANSI/APSP-4 2007 Standard for Aboveground/Onground Residential Swimming Pools

ANSI/APSP/ICC-5 2011 American National Standard for Residential Inground Swimming Pools

ANSI/APSP-6 1999 Standard for Portable Spas

ANSI/APSP-7 2006 Standard for Suction Entrapment Avoidance

ANSI/APSP-8 2005 Model Barrier Code for Residential Swimming Pools, Spas, and Hot Tubs

ANSI/APSP-9 2005 Standard for Aquatic Recreation Facilities

ANSI/APSP-11 2009 Standard for Water Quality in Public Pools and Spas

ANSI/APSP-14 Standard for the Energy Efficiency of Self-Contained Portable Electric Spas and Hot Tubs

ANSI/APSP/ICC-15 2011 American National Standard for Residential Swimming Pool and Spa Energy Efficiency

ANSI/APSP-16 2011 Standard Suction Fittings for Use in Swimming Pools, Wading Pools, Spas, and Hot Tubs

BSR/APSP-17 201X (NEW) Manufactured Safety Vacuum Release Systems (SVRS) for Residential and Commercial Swimming Pool, Spa, Hot Tub and Wading Pool Suction Systems

ANSI/APSP-1 2003 Standard for Public Swimming Pools

This standard provides specifications for the design, equipment, operation, warning signs, installation, sanitation, new construction, and renovation of public swimming pools. This standard permits variations in equipment, materials, and design to accommodate special needs and considerations and advances in technology and to provide the required quality, strength, durability, and safety for the intended use. In this standard, renovation does not include ordinary maintenance. Only those items that are renovated shall adhere to this standard.

APSP-2 1999 Standard for Public Spas

SCOPE: This standard is intended to cover public spas that are used for bathing and are operated by an owner, licensee, or concessionaire, regardless of whether a fee is charged for use.

The provisions of this specification are not intended to prevent the use of other designs, provided that any variation from the specifications in this standard provide the required quality, strength, durability, and safety for the intended use and are approved by the authority having jurisdiction.

This standard is not meant to cover portable spas, permanently installed residential spas, or other spas, such as those operated for medical treatment, physical therapy, or other purposes.

APSP-3 1999 Standard for Permanently Installed Residential Spas

SCOPE: This standard is intended to cover permanently installed residential spas that are used for bathing and are operated by an owner.

This standard is meant to cover certain aspects of the design, equipment, operation, installation, new construction, and rehabilitation of spas. This standard shall be met, notwithstanding certain variations in equipment, materials, and design.

This standard is not meant to cover public spas, residential portable spas, or other spas, such as those operated for medical treatment, physical therapy, or other purposes.

ANSI/APSP-4 2007 Standard for Aboveground/Onground Residential Swimming Pools

SCOPE: This standard describes certain criteria for the design, manufacturing, testing, care, and use of aboveground/on-ground residential (Type O) non-diving swimming pools and their components.

Aboveground/on-ground residential swimming pools are for swimming and wading only. No diving boards, slides, or other equipment are to be added to an aboveground/on-ground pool that in any way indicates that an aboveground/on-ground pool may be used or intended for diving purposes.

This standard does not apply to public/commercial pools, permanently installed residential pools, competitive pools, hot tubs, and other pools or spas, such as those operated for medical treatment, physical therapy, or other special purposes.

ANSI/APSP/ICC-5 2011 American National Standard for Residential Inground Swimming Pools

SCOPE: Residential pools. This standard applies to permanently installed residential inground swimming pools intended for noncommercial use as a swimming pool by not more than three owner families and their guests and exceeding 24 inches (61 cm) in water depth. Separate ponds, fountains, decorative water features, and reflecting pools or other similar bodies of water that are not intended for bathers are outside the scope of this standard. This standard covers specifications for new construction and remodeling of residential inground swimming pools and includes design, equipment, operation, and installation.

This standard permits variations in equipment, and design, including special features such as, but not limited to ledges, beach entries, waterfalls, fountains, bridges, tanning shelves, grottos, seats, benches, in?pool tables and bar stools, walls over 12 inches (30.5) elevated or angled walls or beams, scuba pools, spas, lap pools, swim spas, spillways, slides, coves, walls, etc. to accommodate special needs consideration and advances in technology.

Special purpose pools. Examples of special purpose pools include, but are not limited to, training pools, island pools, scuba pools, polo pools, spas, and lap pools.

ANSI/APSP-6 1999 Standard for Portable Spas

SCOPE: This standard is intended to cover residential portable spas that are used for bathing and are operated by an owner.

This standard is meant to cover certain aspects of the design, equipment, operation, installation, new construction, and rehabilitation of spas. This standard shall be met notwithstanding certain variations in equipment, materials, and design.

This standard is not meant to cover public spas, permanently installed residential spas, or other spas, such as those operated for medical treatment, physical therapy, or other purposes.

ANSI/APSP-7 2006 Standard for Suction Entrapment Avoidance

SCOPE: This standard covers design and performance criteria for circulation systems, including components, devices, and related technology installed to protect against entrapment hazards in residential and public swimming pools, wading pools, spas, hot tubs, and catch basins. This standard applies to new and, when retrofitting, existing installations. Exception: Commercial water parks and their associated suction systems are outside the scope of this standard. ANSI/APSP-7 Fact Sheet

ANSI/APSP-8 2005 Model Barrier Code for Residential Swimming Pools, Spas, and Hot Tubs

SCOPE: These requirements establish layers of protection for young children against the potential for drowning and near-drowning in residential swimming pools, spas, and hot tubs by limiting or delaying their access to swimming pools, spas, and hot tubs. ANSI/APSP-8 Fact Sheet

ANSI/APSP-9 2005 Standard for Aquatic Recreation Facilities

SCOPE: This standard provides recommended minimum guidelines for the design, equipment operation, and installation of waterparks. Pools covered by this standard are designed for free-form aquatic play and recreation and differ from those addressed in ANSI/NSPI-1: Standard for Public Swimming Pools. Pools covered by this standard include pools: wave action pools; activity pools; catch pools; leisure rivers; vortex pools; interactive play attractions – water treatment and filtration only.

Contents include design, decks, circulation systems, filters, pumps and motors, return inlets and suction outlets, surface-skimming systems, electrical requirements, heaters, water chemistry, safety features (including handholds and rope and float lines), restrooms, food consumption, operations, entries/exits and stairs, signs, and accessibility.

ANSI/APSP-11 2009 Standard for Water Quality in Public Pools and Spas

SCOPE: This standard addresses the need for a national model code for sanitation levels, chemical values, and other chemical operational parameters for public pools and spas.

Contents include "Reasons for Immediate Pool Closure," "EPA-Registered Sanitizers and Systems," "Supplemental Sanitzers," "Water Balance," "Physical/Environmental/Operational,"

"Microbiological," and "Contaminants." An appendix provides readers with explanatory information about the values for the requirements listed in the body of the standard, with references and scientific justification for the values in the body of the standard.

ANSI/APSP/ICC-14 Standard for the Energy Efficiency of Self-Contained Portable Electric Spas and Hot Tubs

SCOPE: This standard is to cover the test procedures and methodology for determining the energy efficiency of self-contained portable electric spas and hot tubs. The intent of the test procedures is to influence the design and construction specifications of portable electric spas to maximize energy efficiency.

ANSI/APSP/ICC-15 2011 American National Standard for Residential Swimming Pool and Spa Energy Efficiency

 SCOPE: This standard covers energy efficiency requirements for permanently installed residential aboveground/onground and inground swimming pools and inground spas operated by the property owner and used for bathing. This standard is intended to cover certain aspects of the swimming pool filtration-system design; equipment, including pool and spa heaters; installation; and operational capabilities, for the purpose of consuming less energy while maintaining water quality and temperature. (Pumps Certified to the ANSI/APSP/ICC-15 American National Standard for Residential Swimming Pool and Spa Energy Efficiency)

ANSI/APSP-16 2011 Standard Suction Fittings for Use in Swimming Pools, Wading Pools, Spas, and Hot Tubs

Scope:
This Standard establishes materials, testing, and marking requirements for suction fittings that are designed to be totally submerged for use in swimming pools, wading pools, spas, and hot tubs, as well as other aquatic facilities.

BSR/APSP-17 201X (NEW) Manufactured Safety Vacuum Release Systems (SVRS) for Residential and Commercial Swimming Pool, Spa, Hot Tub and Wading Pool Suction Systems

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