READY

• Create LAYERS of PROTECTION between the water and your children.
      - Layers of Protection
        - Install alarms on doors and windows that lead to the pool.
        - Build a non-climbable five-foot fence between the house and the pool.
        - Use self-closing fence gates that open outwards with latches out of the child’s reach.
        - Have rescue equipment mounted by the pool.
• Learn CPR
• Talk to adults that are caring for your child around water.
• Enroll children in Swim Lessons.
• Safety tips for parents sending children to pool parties - Click HERE

SET

• WATCHING is most important...Never leave your child alone near a pool, spa, bathtub, toilet, bucket or any standing water in which a child’s nose or mouth may be submerged.
• Assign an adult "water watcher" who is committed to supervising the pool area
• Have phone access near the water area.
• Wear PFDs that are Coast Guard approved.

SAVE!

• Call 911.
• Throw! Don’t go. Throw rescue equipment to the victim.
• Begin CPR

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