Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 333 - OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION › Division 60 - PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS › Section 333-060-0015 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in these rules unless otherwise required by
				context:
(1) "Administrator" means the
			 State Public Health Director or designee of the Oregon Health Authority, Public
			 Health Division.
(2) "Approved"
			 means approved in writing by the Division.
(3) "Athletic club" means a facility
			 constructed to provide athletic or physical conditioning for its members,
			 guests and/or patrons. It includes but is not limited to racquetball clubs,
			 health spas, fitness facilities, aerobics, etc.
(4) "Bathhouse" means a structure, which
			 contains dressing rooms, showers and toilet facilities for use with an adjacent
			 public swimming pool.
(5) "Builder"
			 means a person who, in the pursuit of an independent business, undertakes, or
			 offers to undertake, or submits a bid, to construct, alter, repair, or improve
			 any public swimming pool, spa pool or bathhouse and the appurtenances
			 thereto.
(6) "Certified Operator"
			 means a person performing the duties of the responsible supervisor, and
			 responsible for providing direction and training to non-certified responsible
			 supervisors and other pool personnel in regards to pool maintenance and
			 operation. This person shall be certified by an organization providing training
			 in pool safety, maintenance and operation recognized by the Division. Such
			 courses and organizations include the Certified Pool Operator Program, by the
			 National Swimming Pool Foundation, and the Aquatic Facility Operator Program,
			 by the National Recreation and Parks Association, or equivalent, as determined
			 by the Division.
(7) "Cross
			 connection" means an unprotected connection between the piping carrying potable
			 water and the piping or fixtures which carry other water or other
			 substances.
(8) "Division" means
			 the Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division.
(9) "General-use Public Swimming Pool" means
			 any public swimming pool other than a limited-use public swimming pool. Public
			 swimming pools operated in conjunction with a companion facility but not
			 limited to use of the residents, patrons or members of the companion facility
			 are general-use swimming pools.
(10) "Guest protection zone" means a defined
			 and prescribed area of a swimming pool or aquatic feature. A designated
			 lifeguard is responsible for scanning a guest protection zone. Scanning refers
			 to the actions performed by the lifeguard to visually survey and continuously
			 and comprehensively monitor the guest protection zone.
(11) "10/20 Guest Protection Standard" means
			 using a lifeguard planning standard that will place guards in numbers and
			 locations, with identified areas of responsibility, so that they can
			 theoretically identify a victim within 10 seconds and reach the victim within
			 20 more seconds. This is only a planning tool and actual response times will
			 vary depending on the abilities of the lifeguard, their alertness, their
			 vigilance and what else is happening in the pool.
(12) "Horseplay" means any unsafe activity,
			 which in the opinion of the Division or the pool operator endangers the pool
			 users and/or bystanders.
(13)
			 "Instructor" means a currently certified American Red Cross Water Safety
			 Instructor, YMCA Swim Instructor, or a person having equivalent certification
			 as determined by the Division.
(14)
			 "Lifeguard" means a person holding current certification in the following three
			 areas:
(a) Lifeguard certification.
			 Certification in one of the following:
(A)
			 American Red Cross Lifeguard Training;
(B) Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
			 Lifeguarding;
(C) International
			 Lifeguard Training Program (ILTP) for deep water;
(D) Starfish Aquatics Institute StarGuard;
			 or
(E) Other lifeguard training
			 approved by the Division.