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BTA Home Pool Safety Tips:
Be safe and
keep swimming for good times!
 1.
Learn how to swim and then practice, practice, practice.
Strong
face-up swimming skills are the best protection against
drowning.
No child is
"water safe". Young children are not even "living room
safe." They need constant supervision.
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2. Use
layers of protection.
Teach children to
swim. Use a system of multiple barriers preventing access
to pools. Establish and enforce rule for safe pool use.
Maintain pool cleanliness and use effective sanitation.
Use designated, dedicated Water Watchers to supervise young
swimmers. Do not serve alcohol to people participating in
water activities. Learn CPR and first aid to respond
effectively in an emergency.
3.
Choose safe pool toys and use them properly.
Only US Coast
Guard approved flotation devices should be considered safety
items. All inflatables and other flotation items are
toys and are safe for use by skilled swimmers only.
Test swimmers before allowing use of flotation devices.
All swimmers using rafts, rings, noodles, or water wings should
be able to jump into the water, recover to a relaxed back float,
and then swim to the side of the pool unassisted. Swimmers
should also be able to pass a "Dump Test" by demonstrating that
they can recover to a relaxed back float after having fallen off
of an overturned raft or ring.
Do not use water
wings, swimmies, flotation swimming suits, rings, etc. even with
adult supervision. These devices teach a heads-up posture
in the water, arms out to the sides with the back arched and the
knees bent in a bicycling-style kicking pattern. This posture
and action is contrary to that needed for swimming. Read
our complete Flotation
Device Policy.
Do not choose dive
sticks for underwater play. Instead choose dive rings or
balls or other shapes that cannot result in impalement when landed
on. Some water guns rest on the bottom of the pool while
floating in a vertical position. These are also dangerous.
4.
Learn more.
B-T Aquatics offers a
online Water Safety for Parents and Caregiver course
The course covers many aspects of water safety
including public pool use, pool parties, backyard pool
safety, open water and boating considerations, hotel pools and waterparks. Contact B-T Aquatics if you have questions
about this course or any other water safety concerns.
jeneal@brownell.edu
402.556.1205
The B-T Theisen Pool
is a beautiful six-lane, twenty-five yard facility.
We swim rain or shine.
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