Longer days and warmer weather may have you thinking of enjoying your swimming pool for the spring and summer. Chances are, your friends are thinking the same thing and they all may want to come over and enjoy your hospitality. Are you prepared?
As a pool owner, you’ll want to make sure your pump is working, the lines are not leaking, and the chemicals are ordered. Are you as well prepared for the safety issues that must be addressed if you allow friends, neighbors or your children’s friends to come over to swim?
Do not consider the alarm system and fencing in and around your pool as foolproof protection of your property. They are essential, but they will not ultimately ensure the safety of the swimmers in or near your pool. Your friends and family needs to abide by a strict set of pool rules when swimming or playing in your yard.
• Never leave a child alone in your backyard where they have access to a swimming pool – gated or not.
• Put a life jacket on every child below the age of 6. All non-swimming children, however old, should also wear a life jacket.
• Always swim with a buddy. This goes for adults as well!
• No diving in any water under 6 feet deep.
• Do not allow children to stay under water too long while holding their breath. This can lead to blacking out and further complications.
• Never take your eye off underwater swimmers.
• Enforce the “no running” at or near the pool. It’s slippery, and easy to get hurt.
• Limit the number of rafts in a pool. The bottom of the pool must be visible at all times.
• Keep a phone by the pool at all times.
• Keep a long pole near the pool for rescues. Never go into the water to rescue someone if they can be reached by extending a pole to them from the side of the pool. Unskilled rescuers very often become a drowning victim themselves.
• Never take glass objects near the pool or patio area.
• Put plenty of sun-screen on, and keep applying to make sure you and the children do not burn.
• Always clear the pool and pool deck and get under cover for 20 minutes when thunder is heard or lightening is seen.
Swimming Pools are part of the beauty of home ownership. Safe swimming pools make the swim season enjoyable. Relax and enjoy your pool with the knowledge that you and your guests are safe, relaxed and having fun!
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