Pool chemical safety at home

Overview

Pool chemicals protect water when correctly selected and dosed, but concentrated products can burn, react, release gas or start a fire when contaminated or mixed. Treat every container as product-specific, even when two labels appear to serve the same purpose.

Check first

• Read the full product label and current safety data sheet before opening the container.
• Keep products in original labelled containers, dry, upright and secured from children and animals.
• Separate incompatible products, especially chlorine products, acids, fuels, oils, detergents and organic material.
• Use clean, dry, dedicated measuring equipment for one product only.
• Add and circulate products exactly as the label states. Never combine concentrates or return spilled material to a container.

Stop and call a technician

• A container is hot, swollen, leaking, smoking or giving off gas.
• Products have been mixed or a product identity is unknown.
• There has been eye, breathing, skin or ingestion exposure.
• A spill reaches a drain, soil, vehicle or incompatible material.
• The label, required protective equipment or safe dose cannot be confirmed.

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