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- The safety of your children depends only on you! The risk is maximum when the children have less than five
years. The accident does not arrive only at the others! Be ready to face there!
- Supervise and act :
- the monitoring of the children must be brought closer and constant;
- designate only one person in charge for safety;
- reinforce the monitoring when there are several users in the swimming pool;
- learn how to swim with your children as soon as possible;
- wet nape of the neck, arm and legs before entering water;
- learn the gestures which save and especially those specific to the children;
- prohibit the dive or the jumps in the presence of young children;
- prohibit the sharp race and plays with the accesses of the swimming pool;
- do not authorize the access to the swimming pool without waistcoat or life jacket for a child not knowing
well to swim and not accompanied in water;
- do not leave toys in the vicinity and in the basin which is not monitored;
- permanently maintain a water limpid and healthy;
- store the pesticides of water out of the range of the children;
- certain systems of stroke with against current do not allow the automatic reactivation of the system of
detection of immersion;
- certain robots of cleaning of plunger the robots type are incompatible with the systems of detection of
immersion;
- in order to prevent the access to the basin with the children of less than five years at the time of the
release of the signal of failure, to take all measurements necessary until repair.
- envisage:
- accessible telephone close to the basin not to leave your children without monitoring when you
telephone;
- buoy and pole near the basin;
- permanent information that the basin and its accesses are under electronic monitoring,
- only the change of the piles, batteries is authorized, and fuses, which must be done at the beginning of
season;
- in the event of accident:
- as soon as possible leave the child water;
- call help immediately and take the advice which will be given to you;
- replace the clothes wet by hot covers;
- to memorize and post close to the swimming pool the numbers of first aid:
- firemen: (18 for France);
- SAMU: (15 for France);
- poisons centre.