Pool Lifts

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ADA compliance is important. No matter what kind of facility you run, you need to be ADA compliant if at all possible. ADA compliance can mean a lot of different things. It can mean providing appropriate ramps for wheelchair accessibility, or automatic doors for your building. In all cases, ADA compliance hinges on what can be reasonably expected of you as a business owner to provide. For instance, some historical locations are simply not feasible from a perspective of ADA compliance; there’s no way to install accessibility equipment into them, so they are exempt.

One of the most difficult things to make accessible, however, is a swimming pool. Often as not, it isn’t required that you make a pool ADA compliant because there simply are not reasonable steps to take to make a pool accessible. This was the case until very recently. However, those that wish to make their pools handicap-accessible can now do so much more easily. You can find pool lifts at CommercialPool.com and similar sites that provide a good example of what has become available. As technology and distribution techniques have improved, pool lifts have become much more viable to business owners, and there is little reason now not to install them.

ADA compliance has often been the hinge on whether or not a business owner makes something handicap-accessible, but it no longer needs to be. It is now much more possible to make even tricky structures like pools accessible to handicapped individuals thanks to technological progress.