What are the best ways of preventing children from drowning?
• Make sure an adult is constantly watching young children swimming or playing in water. • Do not read, play cards, talk on the phone, mow the lawn, or do any other distracting activity while watching children in a bathtub, in a pool of any size, or at the beach. • Teach children to swim only with a buddy. • Keep small children away from buckets containing liquid: 5-gallon industrial containers are particularly hazardous. • Empty buckets when household chores are done. • Install a four-sided, isolation pool-fence with self-closing and self-latching gates around swimming pools. • Prevent children from having direct access from the house or yard to a swimming pool.
