Every May the American Cross, World Waterpark Association, National Recreation and Park Association and the Pool and Hot Tub Alliance promote water safety month and summer is approaching. It is important to know everything about staying safe around the water.Even though this month is pushed towards younger kids. It is important to know these things whether you are comfortable around the water or not.
These organizations put together a website online that provides a lot of information on water safety month and tips to help keep everyone safe this summer season. Their website provides seven simple tips to stay safe around water. Their first tip is to make sure that if you have a child around water make sure that they know how to swim whether it’s your sibling or a kid you are babysitting. It is extremely important to make sure they know how to swim. Their second tip is simply just to learn to swim! There should ot be shame around not being able to swim it is common thing around older kids or adults and it is ok. But you should learn to swim because it is such an important skill to stay safe. Their third tip is to know where all the drains are located in the pool. Their fourth tip similarly is to make sure that they have drain cover over them. These can be very dangerous if you swim near them because hair, limbs,jewelry, and bathing suits can get stuck in them. The fifth tip is to if you have a pool at home make sure that at your home pool you install necessary barriers, covers, and alarms. These help keep children from going in the pool unsupervised.Their sixth tip is to get CPR certified. This is a very useful skil and could help save a life not just around the water. Their final tip is to take their water safety pledge. You can find it here https://www.poolsafely.gov/pledge/ to help start the call to staying safe around water. If you are curious on more about water safety month visit https://nwsm.phta.org.
But why is this important to know around our area? Our area is surrounded by a lot of water. It is not uncommon that you will be around and near it. You may not be planning to jump in and take a swim but accidents happen. So it is extremely important that you know how to be safe when presented with these situations. If you do not know how to swim there is no reason to be ashamed! Do the safe thing and learn how to swim because it is a very useful skill and could save your life! This is all also very important because summer is near and pools will be open very soon. So make sure to look over these tips but to also research more into this topic if you are curios. Also remember to take water safety seriously because it truly is a life saving topic!
