It’s time to get your backyard ready for spring! Which means it’s time for any homeowner in New York with a pool to ensure their yard is ready for a safe summer season of pool fun. The spring is the perfect time to make sure your backyard is ready for the warmer months. We’ve created a Backyard Pool Safety Checklist for homeowners to follow to protect your family from accidental drownings this year and beyond.

Your Complete Backyard Pool Safety Checklist

At Life Saver Pool Fence we teach all of our clients how to be a “LIFESAVER” with our pool safety tips and checklist:

Layers of protection – Install layers of protection in your yard to protect your family and pets from having easy access to the pool.

Install a pool alarm to alert you of any disturbances to the water and install door locks on any doors that provide access to the backyard.

Fence the pool – A fence is the best way to protect your family from accidental drownings.

Early Infant Swim Instruction – If you have an infant or are expecting a baby, it’s best to get them into swim instruction as early as possible.

Supervise Children and Designate a Water Watcher – Never, ever leave your child or children unattended, even just for a minute or two.

Always Check the Pool First When Children Are Missing – If your child has disappeared from sight, the pool should be the first place you look, even before checking the front yard or street.

Verify Caretakers Know CPR – This means yourself, your spouse, grandparents, babysitters and anyone else who is left alone with your child.

Educated Family and Babysitters on Pool Safety – Anyone who watches your child, including yourself, should understand pool safety and how to keep your children safe around the pool.

Remember that Drowning is Silent and the #1 Accidental Killer of Children Ages 1-4.

In addition to this, when it comes to your pool fence, it’s important to ensure you have all of the “must-haves” in place.

Pool Mesh Pool Fence Must-Haves

• A fence that has a self-closing, self-latching gate with a latch knob at least 6” above the gate.
• A fence that has withstood testing that proves the poles can withstand 100+ pounds of force.
• A fence that does not have any sharp hooks or points on the latches of hardware.
• A fence made of four lines of stitching securing the border to the mesh

Pool and swim season will be here before you know it. The spring is the perfect time to go through this pool safety checklist and make sure your family can enjoy the pool worry-free all summer long. If you need to install new pool fencing, contact us today at (516) 766-5336.

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Children see their backyard swimming pool as a place where family fun happens. To them it’s a place where the family gathers in the summer and it’s a safe fun place where nothing bad can happen. They have no fear because all they see is fun. As parents this is very concerning and we need to have a plan to make sure our kids are safe.

In this coming New Year we will more than likely be spending more and more time in our own backyards, especially with what’s happening outside of our homes. But in our homes we have the say, we are the ruler of that kingdom. It is our job to make sure that the environment that we created is Safe Secure and Comfortable for all of our children.

Pool Safety comes in layers meaning. If one layer fails there must be other back up layers in place. It should be our New Years resolution to have a failsafe system in place with multiple back up layers of protection. Having a swimming pool in our backyards comes with great responsibility. Their lives truly depend upon our decisions, so they should be planned and well thought through.

Direct parental supervision is always the 1st layer of protection and we need to have rules in place so we don’t ever turn our focus from watching our children. Research has shown that 69% of all Drowning incidents happen when 1 or both parents were responsible supervising their child. So this tells us that we need other layers in place.

The second layer of protection is high locks on all home doors and gates leading into the backyard. If you have older children in your home who can reach these locks you may want hide the key so if they want to go out than they need to ask you.

A third Layer of Safety is Alarms on doors and gates leading into the backyard. Most homes have an alarm system in them and all have the chime mode feature, which will alert you if a door or window has been open. There are also several companies that make door alarms that also alert you when a door is open. Some may see these alarms as very annoying and opt out from using them, however when they sound they are doing what there supposed to, alerting you of a breach in your security. Get used to it – It Can Save A Life!

Another Layer is a Pool fence that blocks all access points to the swimming pool. It should have a gate that is self – closing and self – latching. The gate latch should be key lockable and mounted higher than the fence. The pool fence should be 4’ tall but always check your local codes for height regulations first. Your Pool safety fence should not have any staging platforms such as a table or a chair near it. It should also be see through, having a fence that blocks you from seeing the pool is not a good idea. You always want to be able to see the pool. Some people think that a pool fence will take away from the looks of your pool. Or say that they don’t want the holes in their deck and see it only as a eye soar. An unprotected pool is a huge threat to a child! Leaving a loaded gun on a coffee table in the living room is something none of us would ever do. But why are there so many unprotected Swimming pools then. The truth is there is no difference of that loaded gun and that unprotected pool they both have the same outcome. A pool fence is one of the most important layers in our failsafe plan.

A pool alarm that is in the swimming pool will sound if there is a disturbance to the water. They sound at the pool and in your home, there purposely set up to make you go to the pool to deactivate it from alarm mode so you must inspect the pool. Some believe this is annoying, again the pool alarm is doing it’s job when it sounds, even if it a false alarm from high winds it’s still doing its job. A pool alarm is a huge back up to a pool fence and should always be considered.

Swimming survival lessons is also very important for children and they should go from the time they can crawl. There are many programs available and should always be considered.

A Failsafe plan is a plan with multiple back up layers. Therefore for a drowning to occur – no ones watching the child – the door was left open – the door alarm was removed – The pool fence was taken down – the pool alarm was removed – the child never had swimming lessons. When you think pool safety you need to think hard core and you need multiple back ups. A safer happier family at pool time only happens when we have back up layers of safety.

If you live in the New York Area, remember that it is never too early to start planning for Spring Pool Safety! Share this with a friend if you have found it to be helpful.

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