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 Water and Pool Safety Tips
Preventing Entrapment
- Warn your children about the dangers of drain entanglement and entrapment, and teach them to stay away from the drain.
- Install protection to prevent entrapment if you own a pool or hot tub.
- For new pools or hot tubs, install multiple drains or use a no-drain circulation system.
 If you do have drains, protective measures include anti-entrapment drain covers and a safety vacuum release system to automatically release suction and shut down the pump should entrapment occur.
- Actively supervise your children around water, and have a phone nearby to call for help in an emergency.
- Make sure your pool has four-sided fencing and a self-closing, self-latching gate, to prevent a child from wandering into the pool area unsupervised. In addition, hot tubs should be covered and locked when not in use.
- Install a door alarm, a window alarm or both to alert you if a child wanders into the pool area unsupervised.
Important Resources
Safety Check Lists
Water Watcher Card
Guidelines
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 Nancy Baker’s personal journey through pain began in 2002, when her 7-year-old daughter Graeme drowned after becoming trapped underwater by the suction of a spa drain.
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Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act Summary of Provisions (December 2007)
For information on the federal government’s enforcement of the law, as well as equipment resources for pool/spa owners, visit the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website on the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act.
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Senior Public Policy Associate
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