While constant supervision and awareness is necessary to prevent drowning and submersion incidents, taking other simple precautions such as creating barriers that make it more difficult for children to become injured in the water can make all the difference. Implementing barriers such as putting alarms on your doors, installing fences or additional walls, and putting covers on your pool and/or hot tub could end up saving your child’s life. These barriers alone will by no means guarantee your child’s safety, but they should at the very least give parents and guardians more time to notice a child has snuck out to the pool or lake area and alert them. Besides implementing barriers, parents and guardians should make it a priority to constantly keep their children in sight. More often than not, drowning and submersion incidents occur in a child’s home because parents and guardians are unaware that their child has left their room or another area of the house to be near the water.
As personal injury and wrongful death attorneys in the sometimes sweltering state of Georgia, we have represented far too many families and individuals whose children have become victims of drowning and submersion incidents during the summertime. We have worked hard to ensure that public and private community pools adhere to the rules and regulations that are intended to keep patrons safe and hope that those same guidelines are applied in an individual or family’s home. If you would like to know more about how you can make your home as safe as possible, don’t hesitate to contact us right away.