Along with the warm weather comes time for pools, beaches, boats, and other water activities. Before diving off the board into the deep end, take a look at some prevention tips to help keep you your friends and your family safe in or around the water<\/p>\n
Regarding Portable Pools:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Once they are set up, don’t walk away and leave your child unsupervised, even if they are not in the pool yet<\/p>\n – Use an alarm on the door that leads to the pool<\/p>\n – Notify neighbors that you have a pool in your yard<\/p>\n – Empty and put away portable pools after every use<\/p>\n – For larger pools, put away access ladders when done for the day<\/p>\n Larger Pools\/Spas:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Keep kids away from pool drains, pipes and other openings<\/p>\n – Use and maintain pool covers<\/p>\n – Install self-latching, self-closing gates at least 4 feet high<\/p>\n – Encourage the buddy system<\/p>\n Keep Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n – A lifeguard is not a guarantee that your child is being watched at all times – it’s important that you keep a close watch<\/p>\n – When a child is missing, check the pool first<\/p>\n – Learn CPR so that you can help in an emergency<\/p>\n – Learn to swim and teach children to swim<\/p>\n – Don’t rely only on a flotation device to keep kids safe in water<\/p>\n One of the most important rules of all is to always be vigilant, aware and prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Along with the warm weather comes time for pools, beaches, boats, and other water activities. Before diving off the board into the deep end, take a look at some prevention tips to help keep you your friends and your family safe in or around the water Regarding Portable Pools: – Once they are set up, don’t walk away and leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}