Water safety steps: Simple tips

In Watercamp Resort, your safety is always put first with their friendly lifeguards and personnel.

Parents and families can build on their current safety systems at pools and spas by adopting additional Water safety steps. Adding as many proven Water safety steps as possible is the best way to assure a safe and fun experience, because you can never know which one might save a child’s life—until it does.

• Never leave a child unattended in a pool.
• Always watch your child when he or she is in or near water.
• Teach children basic Water safety tips.
• Keep children away from pool drains, pipes and other openings to avoid entrapments.
• Have a telephone close by when you or your family/friends is using a pool.
• If a child or someone is missing, look for him or her in the pool first.
• Share safety instructions with family, friends and neighbors.
• Learn how to swim and teach children how to swim.
• Learn to perform CPR on children and adults, and update those skills regularly.
• Understand the basics of life-saving so that you can assist in a pool emergency.
• Install a four-foot or taller fence around the pool and spa and use self-closing and self-latching gates; ask your neighbors to do the same at their pools.
• If your house serves as a fourth side of a fence around a pool, install door alarms and always use them. For additional protection, install window guards on windows facing pools.
• Install pool and gate alarms to alert you when children go near the water.
• Ensure any pool you use has compliant drain covers, and ask your pool service provider if you do not know.
• Maintain pool covers in good working order.
• Consider using a surface wave or underwater alarm.