(b)The National Recreation and Park Association aquatic facility operator course.
(c) An equivalent course approved by the department
(14) “CPR” means cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
(15) “Children’s slide” means a slide that has a maximum height of 4 feet or 1.2 meters as measured vertically from the slide entrance to slide terminus, and located in less than 24 inches or 61 centimeters of water.
(16) “Cold soak pool” means a pool that uses cold water for therapy.
(17) “Combined chlorine” means the combination of free chlorine with other substance in the water.
(18) (a) “Core item” means a provision in this rule that is not designated as a priority item or a priority foundation item.
(b) “Core item” includes an item that usually relates to general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard operating procedures, facilities or structures, equipment design, or general maintenance.
(19) “Current pool” means a pool that creates a current for the purpose of exercise.
(20) “Death, injury or illness report” means the written record of all facts regarding an incident resulting in bodily harm that requires assistance from emergency medical personnel, for a pool or its associated buildings and structures including a locker room, equipment room, deck, shower, and toilet facilities.
(21) “Deck” means the approved, unobstructed walking surface immediately adjacent to a pool.
(22) “Deep portion” means a portion of a pool having a design water depth greater than 5 feet or 1.5 meters.
(23) “Department” means the Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
(24) “Drop slide” means a slide where the terminus is located 20 inches or 50.8 centimeters or more above the water level.
(25)“Enclosure” means the area within the barrier that separates the pool or water attraction area from other areas of the building or premises.
(26) “Engineer” means a registered professional engineer licensed in Wisconsin.
(27) “Entry access point” means the area in which a patron enters a water attraction.
(28) “Equipment” means all the necessary items for the operation of a public swimming pool.
(29) “Erosion feeder” means a chemical feed device in which powder, tablets, briquettes, or sticks are placed in a container and through which a water stream is passed, eroding and dissolving the chemical.
(30)“Exercise pool” means a pool of shallow depth that operates with or without a current.
(31) “Existing pool” means a pool operating with a license first issued by the department or its agent before June 30, 2023.
(32) (a) “Feature” means a physical object installed in a pool or water attraction that is intended for recreational use.
(b) A “feature includes slides, water slides, pad walks, basketball hoops, diving boards, wave generators, treadmills, vortex pools, current pools, swim-up bars, vanishing edge pools, tethered or untethered floatables, spray features, pool depths greater than 16 feet or a play feature pursuant to s. SPS 390.30. (33) “Filter aid” means finely powdered diatomaceous earth or similar approved material used to coat a septum type filter.
(34) “Flume” means that part of a slide within which sliding takes place.
(35) “Free chlorine residual” means the portion of the total available chlorine that is not “combined chlorine” and is primarily present as hypochlorous acid or HOCl-, hypochlorite ion or OCl-, or Cyanurate-bound available chlorine.
(36) “General public” means any person who patronizes a pool. “General public” does not include members of a household or their personal guests.
(37) “Imminent health hazard” means a condition that presents a substantial likelihood to cause severe adverse health consequences or death.
(38) (a) “Instructional Program” means an activity occurring in the water that is led by a person teaching a participant how to do an exercise, movement, skill or similar activity.
(b) “Instructional Program” includes a swimming class, an exercise class or a water aerobics class.
(39) “Interactive play attraction” means a water attraction, including manufactured devices using sprayed, jetted or other water sources contacting patrons and not incorporating standing or captured water as part of the patron activity area.
Note: Splash pads and spray pads are examples of interactive play attractions.
(40) “Leisure river” means a channeled flow of water of near-constant depth in which the water is moved by pumps or other means of propulsion to provide a river-like flow that transports patrons over a defined path.
(41) “Lifeguard” means a person holding a certificate from a course that meets the criteria for lifeguarding, first aid, CPR and AED training and certification set forth in the 2018 Model Aquatic Health Code or as approved by the department.
Note: A listing of approved courses may be obtained by contacting the department. E-mail datcpdfrsrec@wisconsin.gov or contact the Bureau of Food and Recreational Businesses at (608) 224−4702 or PO Box 8911, Madison, Wisconsin 53708−8911. (42) “Lifeguard and attendant staffing plan” means a written description about how lifeguards and attendants will be used at pools.
(43) (a) “Limited-use public pool” means a swimming pool or whirlpool advertised for use to the general public and is associated with one or two family dwelling that is not part of a condominium association.
(b) The limited-use public pool does not meet department of safety and professional services ch. SPS 390. (c) “Limited-use public pool” does not mean a pool only used by the owner and their guests, a plastic kiddie pool, or a swim pond.
(44) “Maximum flow” means the highest flow rate attainable by the pump without friction from the recirculation system.
(45) “New pool” means a pool operating with a license first issued by the department or its agent on or after July 1, 2023.
(46) (a) “Nontethered floatable” means a floatation device added to a pool that is not tethered to the pool basin, allowing movement of the device around the water.
(b) “Nontethered floatable” includes floating pads or other similar items.
(c) “Nontethered floatable” does not include rubber tubes in leisure rivers and swim wings.
(47) “NSF” means National Sanitation Foundation.
(48) “Operator” means the owner of a pool or the person responsible to the owner for the operation of a pool, including the mechanical systems operations of the pool.
(49) “Oxidizer” means a chemical that can take away electrons from a molecule or atom, thereby destroying organic matter.
(50) “Owner” means the state, a political subdivision of the state, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, or individual owning or controlling any pool.
(51) “Pad walk” means a tethered floatable under rope and netting in an activity pool that allows a patron to cross the water using his or her hands.
(52) “Pathogen” means a microbial organism capable of causing disease.
(53) “Patron” means a human user of a pool.
(54) “Patron load” means the number of patrons in a body of water of a pool.
(55) “Peak flow” means the highest flow rate attainable by the pump within the pool’s recirculation system.
(56) “Person” means an individual, partnership, association, firm, company, corporation, municipality, county, town or state agency, whether tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, or the agent, heir, or assignee of any of these.
(57) “Plunge pool” means a pool with a depth of greater than 24 inches or 61centimeters, located at the exit end of a waterslide flume and intended and designed to receive a patron emerging from the flume.
(58) “Pool or water attraction” means a public pool or water attraction if it serves or is installed for use by the state, a political subdivision of the state, a motel, a hotel, a resort, a camp, a campground, a club, an association, a housing development, an apartment complex with 3 or more dwelling units, a condominium complex, or a housing complex having a homeowners’ association, a school, a religious, charitable or youth organization, an educational or rehabilitative facility.
(59) “Pool and water attraction area” means, in an indoor or outdoor facility, the pool or water attraction and the area within a continuous enclosure.
(60) “Pool slide” means any slide where the drop from the slide terminus to water is less than 20 inches or 50.8 centimeters into greater than 24 inches of water and the flume carries less than 100 gallons of water per minute.
(61) “Principal renter” means the adult who is responsible for communicating with the owner or responsible supervisor and is present to ensure that rules for the safe use of the limited-use public pool are followed.
(62) (a) “Priority item” means a provision in this rule directly related to health and safety that if not met or is missing could significantly contribute to an increased risk for injury or illness.
(b) “Priority item” is an item that is denoted in this rule with a superscript P−P.
(63) (a) “Priority foundation item” means a provision in this rule whose application supports, facilitates, or enables one or more priority items.
(b) “Priority foundation item” includes an item that requires the purposeful incorporation of specific actions, equipment or procedures by the operator such as personnel training, infrastructure, documentation or record keeping.
(c) “Priority foundation item” is an item that is denoted in this rule with a superscript Pf−Pf.
(64) “Public Pool” means a structure, basin, chamber, or tank, and appurtenant buildings and equipment, used for wading, swimming, diving, water recreation, or therapy. Types of pools include pools used for swimming, diving pools, exercise pools, mobile pools, therapy pools, wading pools, whirlpools, and cold soak pools and water attractions or a limited-use public pool. “Public Pool” does not include an inflated mobile structure, basin, chamber, or tank; a swim pond; an individual therapeutic pod, tub, or bath; or a fixed or mobile structure, basin, chamber, or tank that serves fewer than 3 individual residences and is not used as a limited-use public pool.
(65) “Responsible supervisor” means a person designated by the operator to maintain compliance with regulations governing safety and sanitation of a pool or water attraction, a pool slide, or a waterslide.
(66) “Run−out slide” means a water slide where the rider does not exit into a plunge pool, but has a deceleration area that permits the patron to stop before exiting the slide flume.
(67) “Safety data sheet” means written information that details the hazards associated with a chemical and gives information related to its safe use.
(68) “Shallow portion” means the part of the pool that is 5 feet or 1.5 meters in depth or less.
(69) “Slide terminus” means the last 10 feet or 3.1 meters of a slide flume discharging into a pool or water attraction.
(70) “Spectator area” means a designated area for people to observe or watch an activity in a pool.
(71) “Superchlorination” means the addition of an oxidizing product such as chlorine to pool water to raise the level of oxidizer to at least 10 ppm. “Superchlorination” is sometimes referred to as superoxidation.
(72) “Tethered floatable” means a play item or floatation device that is affixed to the basin of a pool to restrict movement of the item.
(73) “Unauthorized access” means the entrance of a person into a restricted area without permission of the operator or the operator’s designated representative.
(74) “Therapy pool” means a pool used for professionally administered physical therapy.
(75) “Turnover time” means the time for a given volume of water to pass through the recirculation system.
(76) “Vanishing edge pool” means a pool that has no above− water line wall on one or more sides where water spills over the edge.
(77) “Vortex pool” means a water attraction that is equipped with a method of transporting water in the basin for the purpose of propelling patrons at speeds dictated by the velocity of the moving stream.
(78) “Wading pool” means a shallow pool having a maximum depth of 24 inches (61 centimeters) and intended for children’s play.
(79) “Water attraction” means a pool with design and operational features that provide patron recreational activity other than conventional swimming and involves partial or total immersion of the body. Types of water attractions include activity pools, interactive play attractions, leisure rivers, plunge pools, vortex pools, vanishing edge pools, waterslides, run−out slides, drop slides, pool slides, wave pools, zero−depth entry pools, and any public pool with play features except wading pools.
(80) “Waterslide” means a slide where a water flow of 100 gallons of water per minute or more is intended to carry a rider down a flume.
(81) “Wave pool” means a water attraction designed to simulate breaking or cyclical waves for the purposes of surfing or general play.
(82) “Whirlpool” means a small pool, sometimes called a “spa”, which uses higher temperature water than other pools and may include a water agitation system.
(83) “Zero−depth entry pool” means a water attraction having a sloped entrance to where the water depth is zero inches at the shallowest point.
ATCP 76.04 Plans and specifications for pools. (1) APPROVAL REQUIRED. Except as required pursuant to Subchapter VII, an operator shall submit pool plans for new construction and obtain approval from the department of safety and professional services pursuant to ch. SPS 390. After July 1, 2023, the following documents shall be kept onsite and made available to the department or its agent upon request. (a) Approved pool plans.
(b) Engineering statements and reports, when applicable.
(c) Compliance declaration, if applicable.
(d) Conditional department of safety and professional services approvals, if applicable.
