By: Lauren Broom What Pool Professionals Need to Know About Raccoons, Fecal Contamination, Filters and PPE For a pool professional, discovering a dead animal in a swimming pool is unpleasant, but it isn’t necessarily an emergency. Birds, frogs, rodents, snakes
By: Lauren Broom Pool professionals are trained to recognize many obvious workplace hazards. Chemicals, electricity, slips and falls, extreme heat, pressurized filters, and hazardous equipment are all part of the job. But some hazards are much smaller—and easier to overlook.
By: Lauren Broom For pool service professionals, a pressure filter can look like just another piece of equipment on the equipment pad. But inside that tank is stored energy—and when something goes wrong, the result can be catastrophic. A pressurized
By: Lauren Broom For pool professionals, transporting chemicals is part of everyday business. Sodium hypochlorite (liquid chlorine) and muriatic acid are two of the most common chemicals used in swimming pool service. But carrying these chemicals side-by-side on the same
By: Lauren Broom Summer is peak pool season, but it’s also the most dangerous time of year for outdoor workers. Pool service technicians spend hours working in direct sunlight while lifting equipment, carrying chemicals, cleaning pools, and servicing pumps and
By: Lauren Broom For many pool service professionals, encountering dogs on customer properties is a routine part of the job. While most dogs are friendly family pets, even well-behaved animals can become territorial, protective, startled, or unpredictable when a technician
