Description

Online CPO Certification for Commercial Pools, Apartments, Hotels & HOAs

The Certified Pool & Spa Operator (CPO)® certification is the world’s leading training program for commercial pool safety, pool compliance, and pool operations management. Since 1972, more than 400,000 pool operators have earned this credential to keep commercial, apartment, hotel, HOA, and community pools safer, cleaner, and open year-round.

This is the official CPO certification online, designed for anyone responsible for operating or maintaining a commercial swimming pool.

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Online CPO Certification – 100% Virtual Training

This virtual CPO class provides the essential knowledge, techniques, and operational skills required for proper commercial pool operation. The course is fully online and eligible for IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs), making it perfect for:

• Apartment maintenance technicians

• Hotel engineers

• Community association managers (CAMs)

• Commercial pool operators

• Aquatic facility staff

• Resort and recreational property teams

Every student receives the official CPO® eBook, plus a hard-copy textbook shipped to all students in the U.S. lower 48.

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What You’ll Learn in the CPO Certification Course

This CPO program delivers the industry’s most comprehensive commercial pool operator training, including:

• How to reduce risks in and around the water
• Preventing drowning, recreational water illnesses (RWIs), suction entrapment, evisceration, diving injuries, electrocutions, and chemical hazards
• Understanding state and local regulatory guidelines and health code compliance
• Maintaining proper disinfection, sanitizer efficiency, and water balance
• Managing cloudy water, algae, chloramines, and contamination issues
• Troubleshooting circulation, filtration, and equipment problems
• Performing accurate chemical testing, dosing, and record-keeping
• Managing automated chemical feed systems and controllers
• Using modern pool automation and commercial pool technology

This is the exact knowledge required to run a safe, compliant, inspection-ready commercial swimming pool.

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Online Certified Pool Operator Class – No Classroom Required

The Online CPO Certification class includes both the course and the CPO exam in a fully virtual format. Take the class from your office, maintenance shop, engineering room, or home.

What’s Included:

• AFT&C Crib Sheet Packet

• CPO Practice Test & Flash Cards

• Official CPO textbook (digital + print)

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Virtual CPO Course Format

• Live virtual instruction with industry veteran Rudy Stankowitz
(10 AM – 6 PM US EST, both days)
• Online proctored CPO exam on Day 2
(Up to 3 hours)
• No travel, no classroom, no missed work shifts

Perfect for busy maintenance teams, hotel engineering departments, and multi-family property staff.

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About Your Instructor — Rudy Stankowitz

Rudy Stankowitz is a 30-year veteran of the commercial swimming pool industry and President/CEO of Aquatic Facility Training & Consultants. He began his career with Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies, where he worked as Assistant Manager, Store Manager of the highest-volume Northeast location, and later District Manager.

He went on to:

• Serve as Large Accounts Manager at Meyco Products

• Design Meyco’s line of commercial swimming pool safety fencing

• Represent Astral Products as Vice President of Sales in Florida

• Own Aqua Caribbean, providing commercial and residential pool service

• Launch Aquatic Facility Training & Consultants in 2014

Rudy is an award-winning NSPF® instructor, international speaker, and columnist for Pool Pro Magazine. He has delivered pool operator training throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Originally from Long Island, Rudy now resides in Archer, Florida, with his wife Joy.

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For additional study help, visit the official CPO Practice Test & Flash Cards:

https://cpoclass.com/cpo-practice-test/