Every 4 years unless alterations are made to the pool barrier. Any building work carried out on the barrier requires a building permit with the relevant building surveyor inspecting the barrier to determine if it complies with the applicable standard.

Your pool or spa inspection will include the services of a VBA registered inspector, who will follow the pool compliance checklist in order to provide you with an inspection outcome. Which you will receive on the same day guaranteed.

If your pool barrier is non-compliant but doesn’t pose a significant and immediate risk to life and safety, the inspector will provide you with a barrier improvement notice, and you will have 60 days to make the barrier compliant.

The main reasons that pool barrier inspections fail to comply are: gates not self-closing from ANY given position, climbable objects too close to the barrier, vertical gaps greater than 100mm, gaps greater than 100mm between the pool barrier and ground level.

Definitely! To avoid a re-inspection, you can use the checklists provided on the VBA website which can help you assess the safety of your barrier. Different standards apply depending on the construction date of your pool barrier.

Once you have received your compliance certificate from iinspect you will be required to submit your compliance certificate within 30 days to your local council.