Baby Pool Safety Tips
(from the
American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Never leave your baby alone in or around
the pool.
- Put up a baby pool safety fence separating your
house from the swimming pool. Most young children who drown in pools wander
out of the house and fall into the pool. Install a baby pool safety fence at least 4
feet high enclosing your entire swimming pool. This baby pool safety fence
must entirely separate the pool from the house and play area of the yard. Use
Baby Pool Safety Gates that are self-closing and self-latching, with latches
higher than your childrens' reach.
- Don't trust your baby's life with
air-filled floatation devices as they are not a substitute for approved life vests
and can unnecessarily put your baby's life at danger.
- Anyone watching young children or babies around a
pool should be CPR-certified.
- All toys
should be removed from the pool after use. Toys in the pool will
always tempt children towards the pool. After the children are done
swimming,
lock the
baby pool safety gate so they can't get back in to the pool area.
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Baby pool safety fencing can prevent tragedies from happening
to your precious family members.
If you have both kids and a pool, supervision
is required to keep your children safe from water accidents or drowning.
Adult supervision alone won't be enough.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, of all the swimming
pool accidents involving small children, 77% of the victims had been
seen by a parent/guardian within the past five minutes. Almost 80% of
swimming pool accidents occurred when both parents were at home and
watching the child!
Experts at the National Spa & Pool Institute, the Consumer Product
Safety Commission and the American Academy of Pediatrics agree that pool
safety barriers are always necessary. The fence should be a minimum of
4 feet high with a self-closing, self-latching pool gate. All Guardian
pool safety fence systems meet these standards.
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Please supervise your children at all times -- and install a
Guardian Baby Pool Safety Fence around your swimming pool.
This guide courtesy of Guardian
Pool Fence Systems Inc.
Please feel free to distribute this to your friends and neighbors!
Read more about
baby pool safe
Pool Safety for Babies
CDC: water injury facts
Safe Babies pool safety tips
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