Cover Safety
Our goal is to provide you with the safest product available. To ensure the utmost safety around your pool, we want to stress the following: Cover Pools recommends "layers" of protection of which our cover is one. You should not rely on any one layer to be fail proof.
A swimming pool can provide your family with hours of entertainment and the opportunity for healthy recreation.As a pool owner, be aware that you must ensure your child's safety. There is a risk of a child drowning when around any body of water. There is no substitute for constant adult supervision. Most drowning occurs during a five-minute-or-less lapse in supervision. By providing barriers between your child and the pool, you can avoid a tragic accident should your child momentarily slip out of sight.
- Don't rely on one system—layering safety precautions provides the strongest safeguard.
- Never leave a child alone—even for a second.
- Maintain constant eye contact with your children when they are around the pool.
- Do not consider young children water-safe because they have had swimming lessons. Swimming instructions for children under three years of age are not recommended.
- Instruct baby-sitters about potential hazards to young children in and around swimming pools and the need for constant supervision.
- Train all caretakers in life-saving, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid. No exceptions.
- Install a telephone pool side with emergency numbers posted.
- Keep toys away from the pool when the pool is not in use. They can lure a child into the pool.
- Use inflatable toys only under adult supervision. They may deflate or your child may slip off.
- Post and enforce rules such as No Running, No Pushing, No Dunking, and Never Swim Alone.
- Make sure you have rescue devices accessible pool side.
- Keep all doors and windows leading from the house to the pool area secure. Install self-closing mechanisms on doors.
- Enclose the pool with a barrier. In fact, fencing may be required in certain area. Check your local city or county building code for more information.
- Install only child-proof, self-closing, self-latching gates around the pool.
- Vertical bars on a pool fence should be no more than three-and-three-fourths inches apart. Avoid fences such as chain link that provide footholds for little climbers' feet.
- Place table and chairs well away from the pool fence to prevent children from climbing into the pool area.
- Alert your pool maintenance people, utility personnel,and your neighbors to keep covers, gates, doors to pool closed and locked at all times.
- Check to ensure that spa and pool covers pass minimum safety requirements set by the American Society of Testing Materials.
- Never use a pool with its cover partially in place since children may become trapped under it.
- Beware of a free-floating pool cover. A child can slip beneath one unnoticed.
- Realize that a child can drown in as little as two inches of water. Drain standing water off of your spa or pool cover.
- Investigate using a pool alarm and/or a monitoring system that can be worn by a child.
- Remove ladders and steps from above ground pools.
- No objects should be in the pool area for a child to climb on and into the water.
- Inspect safety and pool equipment regularly. Preventive devices are only effective if they are in working order.