There are many simple rules and guidelines you can follow to prevent drowning and submersion incidents from occurring in your home or at a community pool or lake. Besides installing barriers like fences and gates, door alarms, power safety covers, it is also important for parents and guardians to make sure someone is constantly supervising their children. Children can slip out of the house and into the pool area or backyard without any warning, so keeping them in your line of vision at all times will help ensure their safety.
It is also important for parents and guardians who own above-ground pools to keep the steps and ladders leading to the pool locked up or detached when the pool is not being used. If a child is swimming in the pool, an adult should be accompanying them at all times. If a child slips or bumps their head in the pool the parent, guardian, or sibling who is with the child will be able to pull them out seconds, or even minutes, sooner, which could prevent potentially fatal or severe injuries. Anyone who is accompanying the child in the pool should be able to administer CPR in order to revive the child after a submersion incident.
There should always be emergency numbers posted near the pool and a first-aid kit should be kept close to the facility. Keeping toys and other objects away from the pool area is also helpful in preventing slip and fall incidents. Constantly making sure the area is clean, the children are constantly supervised, and the proper barriers are in place is essential to maintaining a safe home environment.