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Swimming Pool Safety Tips For Adults

More often than not, drowning and other swimming pool-related accidents that involve children may have been prevented in hindsight. Whether you are swimming with your kids at your own backyard pool or at a community or public pool, the swimming pool safety guidelines are similar. Keep these safety guidelines in mind until they become second nature. Ensure too that other adults or older children that you entrust to watch over your young ones when you are not around know these safety guidelines as well.

Keep watch of children when they are in or even just nearby the pool. This is easier said than done as some adults think that it is enough to be just sitting around while the kids are playing in the water. However, supervising children means being mindful of what they are doing all the time. Thus, adults who are supposed to be watching over the kids must refrain from chatting on the phone, or being engrossed in conversation with other adults, or worse, be drinking alcoholic drinks while they are supposed to be watching the kids.

Swimming pool safety measures also include keeping the children away from drains and pipes in or near the pool to avoid children from getting into and trapped inside these installations. For those who have their own pool in the backyard, it is important to install a fence with a self-closing and self-latching gate, pool covers, door alarms, and gate alarms. Gates must be four feet tall or even higher and must not have any parts that can be used by children as handholds or footholds when they want to climb over the fence.

Of utmost importance as well is to know how to swim and to teach one’s children how to swim too. Finally, increase your swimming pool safety skills by learning how to perform CPR on both children and adults.