Infographic: Cooking dinner? Choose someone else to be the Water Watcher, or end swim time first. More than half of pool drownings of children under 5 are linked to a gap in adult supervision. Most children who drowned in pools or spas had been missing for 5 minutes or less. Hand the Water Watcher job to another adult, or close the pool and lock the doors to it.

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Choose someone else to be the Water Watcher, or end swim time first.

  • More than half of pool drownings of children under 5 are linked to a gap in adult supervision.
  • Most children who drowned in pools or spas had been missing for 5 minutes or less.
  • Hand the Water Watcher job to another adult, or close the pool and lock the doors to it.

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Sources

  1. In-Home Drowning (Safety Education Center) (opens in a new tab) U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  2. Preventing Drowning (opens in a new tab) CDC
  3. Safety Tips (opens in a new tab) Pool Safely (CPSC)

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