Victoria to consider pool safety register

Victoria will consider creating a statewide pool register with the state government recognising more must be done to prevent child drownings.

The acknowledgement comes amid calls from the state coroner for pool safety reform after a toddler drowned in a pool in 2015.

The Victorian government says it will carefully consider the coroner's advice as it prepares to release its new building regulations.

"The death of a child is a tragedy and we've acknowledged that more must be done to strengthen pool safety regulations,' a government spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The draft buildings regulations will be released for public consultation later this month.

Coroner Audrey Jamieson investigated the death of a two-year-old boy in Melton South in 2015, finding he got into the pool because it had a damaged fence.

Ms Jamieson said the death was a result of a tragic mix of poor departmental oversight and a "lackadaisical approach" to raising the child child by a number of adults.

"(As well as) the seemingly perpetually inadequate regulation of swimming pools in Victoria," she said in her findings, released on Tuesday.

The gate to the pool where the boy died was faulty and did not lock.

"In Victoria it is relatively simple for properties with pool safety barriers and gates that do not meet regulatory standards to remain undetected," Ms Jamieson said.

The coroner recommended the introduction of a pool safety certificate that must be obtained before a property with a pool can be sold or leased.

She also called for the creation of a statewide pool register and a new routine inspection document that includes pool and spa fence condition.