What are the best ways of preventing children from Drowning?

  • Make sure an adult is constantly watching young children swimming or playing in water.
  • Do not read, play cards, talk on the phone, mow the lawn, or do any other distracting activity while watching children in a bathtub, in a pool of any size, or at the beach.
  • Teach children to swim only with a buddy.
  • Keep small children away from buckets containing liquid: 5-gallon industrial containers are particularly hazardous.
  • Empty buckets when household chores are done.
  • Install a four-sided, isolation pool-fence with self-closing and self-latching gates around swimming pools.
  • Prevent children from having direct access from the house or yard to a swimming pool.