提高你的家庭泳池安全
使用这些泳池安全提醒, from guidelines for the height of a pool safety fence to pool safety equipment to keep on hand, to make sure your swimming pool is ready for the season.
梦想着一个更悠闲，更适合逃跑的后院? For many, that dream includes a swimming pool — either 地上 or in-ground — or a hot tub. Plenty of American homeowners already live that dream every day. 根据 Liveabout, t在这里 are more than 10 million stationary swimming pools in the country and over 7 million hot tubs.
游泳池也有风险. Seventy-four percent of drowning deaths of children younger than 15 occur at a home, and it's estimated that a child dies every five days in a portable pool in the United 状态s. 这就是为什么任何游泳池都是便携式的, 地上, in-ground — should be installed and used in tandem with physical safety elements such as a pool safety fence and educational safety elements like 更安全的游泳方法包括每个人的课程和心肺复苏术培训.
教孩子游泳
Certified swimming lessons help reduce childhood drowning incidents. 建议儿童 开始上游泳课 4岁时. 让每个孩子都在大人的监督下. Make sure adults have an adult/pediatric CPR training.
游泳池安全
拥有一个游泳池会带来很多责任, such as making sure the proper regulations are met in your area, proper maintenance is performed and providing essential safety features.
池畔安全要点
- 拯救生命的环
- 牧羊人的钩
- Self-closing/latching gate (open outward, out of the reach of children)
- 通往泳池的门上有警报器
- 60"-tall, four-sided fence/enclosure (one side should not be the house)
Pool-use警报
这些工具可以帮助你消除潜在的风险 池的危险:
- A rigid pool cover (keep the control out of kids' reach)
- 运动传感器水下报警器
- Rounded, crack-free drain covers (all screws installed)
全年泳池安全提醒
The importance of safety continues year round and even when your pool is not in service.
- Check that your pool meets city and state regulations.
- Ensure no one can climb over, under or through the fence.
- 不使用的楼梯和梯子要拆卸.
- Do not include diving boards and slides in your pool design.
- 将池内化学品锁在通风良好的柜中.
- 不要在闪电附近游泳.
One step that you can take if you have a more permanent structure is to schedule annual maintenance on your swimming pool. Have a professional inspect the pool and drain covers. Then make sure family and friends that use the pool understand w在这里 the pool safety equipment is located and what safety requirements you have for swimming, such as providing adult supervision at all times for children. Many pool accidents occur when adults momentarily step away from the pool area leaving a child unattended.
为您的便携式游泳池额外提示
Inflatable or soft-sided pools pose the same dangers as larger versions. 格外注意保护你的家人.
- 每次使用后清空.
- 储存在够不着的地方或锁在安全的柜子里.
- 随时监督使用情况.
