Why is it strongly recommended for guests to be 17 and older in the spa?
The Link Aquatic Center spa was designed as an adult use hot water pool. The design intended for users to only sit and use the jets in the spa and not as a warm water play pool. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) helped develop standards to prevent hair entanglement and body part entrapment in spas, hot tubs, and whirlpools. These standards should help prevent deaths and injuries. The main hazard from hot tubs, spas and whirlpools is the same as that from pools – drowning. Since 1980, CPSC has reports of more than 700 deaths in spas, hot tubs and whirlpools. About one-third of those were drownings to children under age five. Since 1978, CPSC has reports of 49 incidents (including 13 deaths) in which people’s hair was sucked into the suction fitting of a spa, hot tub, or whirlpool, causing the victim’s head to be held under water. Hair entanglement occurs when a bather’s hair becomes entangled in a drain cover as the water and hair are drawn through the drain. In some in
