Pool and Spa Association

Here information is in regard to the children's pool and Spa Association’s approved challenge PO exam. To join up the Challenge Pool Operator’s exam we ask you click on Global Lifeguards Inc. or head to our affiliate’s website at and tap on “Register on the web” then scroll right down to Virginia and choose “Swimming Pool Operators Challenge Exam”.

The children's pool and salon Association (SPSA) gets the exclusive right to provide approved Challenge Pool Operator’s exam, which satisfies the requirements to acquire a three-year Swimming Pool Operator's certification. This certificate is approved by many north Virginia jurisdictions, including Fairfax County, the City of Alexandria, Loudoun County, the City of Fredericksburg, Fairfax City, and Falls Church. The PO demands of these jurisdictions do not require individuals to have finished a training course, with no documents of education must challenge the SPSA-approved exam.
It is around the prospects to choose when they would you like to take a pool operator’s program because formal instruction is certainly not a requirement. If you would like to just take a nationwide share operator’s program, we recommend the self-study system to be had by our affiliate, the United states Lifeguard Association. This self-study program can be authorized for other jurisdictions including the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. For further information with this PO course you may head to, and choose “Courses provided” towards the top left of the home page.
The task exam is a timed 50-question multiple-choice test that candidates can take up to 60 minutes to perform. Applicants must pass with a grade of 70 or maybe more to receive their PO certificate. The exam emerges just in English, and it is to be taken closed book, with no accessibility or reference to pupil records, guides, or language dictionaries. It's going to be necessary to deliver proper evidence of ID, such as for example a driver's permit, college ID, passport, or comparable image ID, and applicants needs to be 16 years of age or older to take the exam. The cost of the exam in addition to three-year certificate is $75.00, together with registration the exam should be paid-in advance through our web subscription system.
Upon conclusion of this exam, candidates will receive their particular PO outcomes by email in 24 hours or less. Effective applicants will have a copy of the Swimming Pool Operator’s official certification emailed to them with regards to outcomes, which certification works extremely well as your temporary certification. Also, a plastic waterproof wallet official certification card may be mailed off to them the next mailing day. As with all our certifications, you may possibly look online into Universal Certificate web site at and verify their particular substance.

If prospect fails the exam, he/she may retake the exam after waiting 24 hours. The fee for retake should be another $75.00 and subscription should be finished on the web.

TESTING VENUE:
Jewish Community Center
8900 Little River Turnpike
Fairfax, VA, 22031
Testing sessions will each have sitting for 20 applicants.
Please be aware we ask you not phone the JCC

Testing Hours Starting for May and Summer
Every Saturday: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 10:30 a.m.

Testing hours from July through end of August
Every Saturday: 10 a.m.

Testing hours from September through end of April
Every third Saturday: 10 a.m.

Location: Sheraton Premier Resort at Tysons Corner
8661 Leesburg Pike
Vienna VA 22182

Regarding the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, we will be supplying testing at the Sheraton resort in Tysons Corner. The evaluating times will likely to be 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9 p.m. This big day of screening is set apart for many who can be returning from university or not able to arrive prior to this date and should obtain their particular permit to help open their neighborhood pool.

In addition to individual testing, we offer on-site team evaluation, for six or higher individuals, where we'll send our proctors to issue the exam. If you're contemplating installing team testing at your facility or location, we ask you e mail us ahead of time by mailing us at poolandspaassociation@yahoo.com so we may arrange hotels for your team.
Along side offering on-site evaluating, the Swimming Pool and salon Association offers the ability for teams to make the proctored exam at over 1, 000 professional company facilities across 450 locations in 75 nations global with special plans. To learn more, we ask which you email us at poolandspaassociation@yahoo.com.
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