General Water Safety

• Close your bathrooms and and your laundry rooms.
• Close your toilets and use toilet seat locks.
• Stay with your child when they are in the bathroom.
• Drain the tub immediately after your child’s bath.
• Empty all tubs, buckets, containers and wading pools after use and store upside down out of your child’s reach.
• Empty inflatable or portable pools after each use and store them upside down and out of their reach.

• Teach your child to never go near or in water without an adult present.
• Actively watch your child in or around water, even when a life guard is on duty and even if your child is a confident swimmer.
• Stay within arm’s length of your child until he is a confident swimmer.
• Every child is different. Enroll your child in swimming lessons when you feel he is ready.
• Teach children that swimming in a lake or river is not the same as swimming in a pool. It may be difficult to judge the depth of the water or the strength of a current.
• Swim only in areas designated for swimming.
• Whether swimming in a backyard pool or in a lake, teach children to swim with a partner using the “buddy system”.
• “Water wings” and inflatables are toys, not safety devices.
• Learn CPR, it will give you peace of mind.
• Watch your child for the dangerous “too's:”

- Too tired

- Too cold

- Too far from safety

- Too much sun

- Too much activity

• How have you educated your child on water safety?

​​This is a great swimming safety resource as well: Swimming Safety: Tips and Considerations for Pools, Beaches, Hot Tubs, and More