4 Types of Checklists Your Pool Needs
Keeping your swimming pool in excellent condition requires a lot of hard work. There are many tasks that must be completed regularly to keep your pool clean, compliant, and well maintained. Unfortunately, this can become a challenge if you can’t keep track of all the tasks by yourself or complete them on your own.
Checklists are an excellent way to help you stay organized. Creating custom checklists, like those on the DigiQuatics application, allow you to keep track of the tasks that need to be completed, specific due dates, and who completed each item. It also prevents certain tasks, particularly any small details, from being overlooked.
To keep your swimming pool in excellent condition and to better organize yourself and your staff members, here are four checklists your swimming pool needs.
1. Daily Maintenance Tasks
Several tasks must be completed daily to keep your pool and the pool deck clean. This could involve simple chores such as putting away all pool noodles and toys and setting out chairs in designated areas.
2. Water Levels
Checking the pool’s water levels is crucial and must be done. However, when you have many staff members, you may not know if it was done, by who, what the current levels were, etc. A checklist is a great way to have all that information available and easy to access. You know who completed the test, the exact time it was done, what the levels were, etc. With customization features, you can ask for the information you desire most to be checked and documented.
3. Open/Close Checklists
Opening the swimming pool at the beginning of the day, as well as closing it at the end of the night, comes with its own set of duties. A checklist outlining these responsibilities is a terrific way to ensure every duty is completed and your pool is ready for all of your guests. It will also help each shift know what is required of them and one shift will not be juggling more responsibilities than another.
4. Pool Maintenance
There are tasks around your swimming pool that may need to be completed once a week or even every quarter. Rather than wonder when the last time a certain item was checked off and maintained, you can use a custom checklist. Again, by creating a checklist for these maintenance tasks, you can ask for all the information that matters most to you. For example, you can require that the person completing the job is listed, as well as the time, date, description of what was done, etc.
There are dozens of options when it comes to creating custom checklists for your swimming pool. A few additional checklist ideas include:
Bathroom check-ins
Must-have first-aid kit items
Health code inspection list
Security check-in list
When managing a pool, using custom checklists not only helps you stay better organized, it also helps you stay compliant as well. If problems or questions arise, you need documentation that you can provide at a moment’s notice. Checklists provide that information for you. Your pool will run more effectively and be better maintained. All of your guests, and yourself, will better enjoy your facilities.
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