Backyard swimming pool safety inspections: A comparison of management approaches and compliance levels in three local government areas in NSW

Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-42

  van Weerdenburg, Katherine ^a   Mitchell, Rebecca ^b   Wallner, Frank ^a  

^a Healthy Cities Illawarra Inc   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enforcement; Inspection; Legislation; Swimming pool fencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DROWNING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SAFETY; SWIMMING POOL;

BUILDING CODES; DROWNING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; SAFETY; SWIMMING POOLS;

EID: 33745744244     PISSN: 10361073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/he06037     Document Type: Article

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