Water Safety Tips for Pool Owners
	From Solano County Health & Social Services, Health Promotion and Education

• Drowning is the leading injury cause of death for children 1-4 years old in California.
• Most toddler-age children drown in backyard pools at their own homes.
• Drowning is a quiet event. Children don't splash and yell.
• Drowning happens fast! In a few seconds, a child can be underwater and not able to breathe. Brain damage can occur in less than five minutes.
• Isolation fencing with self-closing and self-latching gates that separate the pool from the home can help buy the extra few seconds someone needs to notice a child is missing and save him or her from drowning.

Kids Drown Fast, Without Noise Watch the Water H&SS Health Promotion and Education Bureau: 707-553-5556 or e-mail to: LHuddart-Wolfe@solanocounty.com
Do: Supervise children at all times, especially around water.     Do: Install a four-sided fence that isolates the pool from the house.     Do: Make sure that gates are self-closing and self- latching.     Do: Install alarms on doors leading from the house to the pool.	Don't: Leave pool toys or ball floating in the water.     Don't: Ever leave a small child alone near water, even to answer the doorbell or phone!     Don't: Leave water standing in buckets, wading pools or bathtubs.
More information about drowning prevention is available at the following websites: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/cdic/epic/html/injury_data.html http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/ http://www.ocfa.org/resident/st_drown.htm http://safekids.org/fact99/drown99.html http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/359.html http://web2.airmail.net/wch0/ http://www.aap.org/policy/04482.html http://drownprevention.com/ http://www.injurypreventionweb.org/links/links-drown.htm http://www.liveandlearn.com/pools.html Learn more about the new California Law called The Swimming Pool Safety Act (Assembly Bill-3305 passed in 1996), especially if you are planning to install a NEW pool at: http://www.rocklin.ca.gov/building/pool.htm or under Section 115920 of the California Health and Safety Code at: http://leginfo.ca.gov/ or http://www.assembly.ca.gov/

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