Safety Tips For Installing Swimming Pools


by Synapse India - Date: 2008-06-19 - Word Count: 307 Share This!

Swimming pools are considered as a potential exercise pool where one can relax and enjoy the soothing bath. Unfortunately, the number of drowning deaths especially among young children has increased to a great extent. These unpleasant accidents have incited the public debate over the safety of cheap inflatable pools.

According to the latest reports, drowning has been proved as the chief cause for deaths among children aging between one to four. Sadly, this particular cause is getting increased with each passing day. In fact the latest report from the US based Consumer Product and Safety Commission, clearly indicates that the annual number of drowning deaths involving children under age five had increased to 283 for 2003-2005, up from 267 in 2002-2004. Surprisingly most of these deaths and injuries happened in homes and yards, and generally involved children under the age of two.

Because of increasingly posing dangers, parents need to keep a strict eye on their children in case they are near any water pool. Besides this, parents must access the limits of their child's ability to swim. They further need to set firm ground rules for allowing child to enter into the water.

Follow swimming pool safety tips should be taken in care:

1. It is better not to leave babies or infant children unattended near any water resource including tubs, pools or buckets of water.

2. Encourage your child to take up the swimming lessons.

3. Do not let your children to swim without the adult supervision or alone. Make sure they swim in the supervised places that too with a lifeguard on duty.

4. Try to cover the swimming area with safety fences with child-proof latches around swimming pools.

5. Never let your child to dive into unfamiliar water.

Having a good swimming pool at home is not enough, you need to take extra care of your pool and its surrounding area.

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