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NSPF partners with IPSSA: the agreement is vet another strategic partnership for the CPO course.(National Swimming Pool Foundation)(Independent Pool and Spa Service Association Inc)(Certified Pool Operator Program)(Brief article)

Aquatics International

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The National Swimming Pool Foundation has signed a partnership agreement with the Independent Pool & Spa Service Association Inc. that will further expand the Certified Pool Operator Program.

As part of the agreement, NSPF will train 10 individuals from IPSSA as Certified Pool-Spa Operator instructors. Within the year, these instructors will offer CPO courses at regional meetings in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.

Though a timeline has not yet been established, NSPF CEO Thomas M. Lachocki, Ph.D., speculates that the instructors will be ready to hold their first CPO class for IPSSA members by early 2007, if not earlier.

For NSPF, the agreement is another in a long line of strategic partnerships that is growing the CPO brand. Most recently, NSPF partnered with the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals. The trade association terminated its PPSO program in favor of NSPF's CPO curriculum.

In addition, NSPF has promoted the CPO ...

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