Is Your Home Pool Safe? Home water safety, It is your duty as a parent to ensure that your home pool is safe.
- Ensure all pool fence panels are in good repair and meet the correct safety requirements.
- Check for rusted, loose, or missing screws.
- Pool gates must be in good repair, be self-closing, close correctly, and once closed cannot be pulled open.
- Keep gates closed at all times, and never wedge open.
- All gates must have a lock and key.
- Store all keys out of sight and out of reach of children.
- Always have a current Resuscitation Sign displayed prominently in the pool area.
- Have a first aid kit available.
- Move garden furniture, BBQs, ladders, trees, and plants away from the pool fence, to prevent children from climbing and gaining access to the pool.
- Have chemicals stored securely, out of view, and out
of reach of children. - Do not allow access to pool pumps and machinery.
Royal Life Saving Australia has a Home Pool Safety Checklist, use this to check if your home pool is safe. Visit our HOME WATER SAFETY page for more information, you can find the Home Pool Safety Checklist there.
Always supervise around water.
Never leave children unattended around water, drowning takes 20 seconds!
