Slippery Standards: Keeping Patrons Safe on Wet Surfaces

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Back in 2010, I was involved in writing the first Model Aquatic Health Code, a federal effort led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the only architect involved in the process, I sat on the Facility Design & Construction Committee, which focused on those components of the code. Our committee met regularly, sharing research on state codes and published standards, striving to find areas of consensus, creating our own language with scientific data when we could and noting areas where existing data was lacking.  

Each committee member was responsible for spearheading the collaborative writing of specific sections of the code. One of my areas was pool decks, and it didn’t take long for me to realize that when it came to “slip resistance,” the aquatics industry lacked definitive data on what that term actually meant.  

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