Pool Lighting Regulations for Public Pools

 Swimming pools, especially public pools must have proper swimming pool lights. Pool lights are more needed at night since it is dark and it is important that everything that it happening around the pool is monitored. In installing pool lights, there are certain criteria for pool lighting and electrical wiring that the pool owner or operator must meet in order for the permits to be approved. 

The following are some of those standards that must be followed:

• If the swimming pool is both used during the day and night, swimming pool decks must be well-lighted at night. Public pools are required of doing this because insufficient lighting in the pool deck may cause accidents at night. Also, dressing rooms, pool steps and ladders, and other walkways must also be lighted. Lights must not be too dim or too bright, it should be just right.
• In electrical wiring, swimming pools need to meet the standards set by the National Electrical Code (NEC). They set different standards about different electrical wiring in different areas of the swimming pool.
• For underwater lighting, the required lights must be not less than 500w/100w per square foot of the surface area of the swimming pool. Indoor and outdoor swimming pools must also have adequate lighting (can be artificial lights) for the maindrains to be always visible.