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Here are a few important pool safety
tips to help you ensure that you and your swimming pool stay safe this summer.
- A swimming pool should include at least one of many different
barriers to ensure a child or animal cannot get into your pool. Some safety
barriers include appropriate fencing, a safety cover or net and pool alarms.
- To ensure the swimming pool is clean and bacteria-free, check
all water and chemical levels often and rectify as needed.
- Children should never under any circumstances be
left alone in or near spas, swimming pools, hot tubs or any place that gathers water.
Water should be pumped off existing covers, as they can pose a drowning risk
as well.
- Chemicals should be stored in a place where children
cannot access them and should be stored in appropriate places (i.e. not next
to one another, in certain temperatures etc.) as recommended by your local
pool contractor and chemical manufacturer.
- Chemicals should never be mixed.
- Ensure when you are dispensing chemicals that you
read and follow all appropriate instructions.
- The appropriate level of sunscreen or
sun block
should always be worn when outdoors and should be reapplied as often as
necessary.
- It is wise to have a phone accessible when outside
in the pool and it is recommended that pool owners receive proper lifesaving
certification.
- No one should ever run, push or play near a pool or
ever hold anyone under the water or jump while others are in the pool.
- It is dangerous to be in a pool or hot tub while
intoxicated.
- Floating toys are not lifejackets or approved
flotation devices and should not be used as such.
- A person diving should know the proper way to dive
and know the water's depth before ever diving into a pool.
- If there is any type of electrical storm or
inclement weather forecasted, do not swim or be near a pool.
- Any type of swimming pool cover should be entirely removed
before anyone goes swimming in a pool as being trapped under a partially
removed cover is dangerous.
- Never have glass near a swimming pool, if it breaks it can
injure those walking with barefoot or swimming and glass pieces are very
difficult to remove from the pool
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