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Cooking dinner?
Choose someone else to be the Water Watcher, or end swim time first.
What this infographic says
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
- In-Home Drowning (Safety Education Center) (opens in a new tab) U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Preventing Drowning (opens in a new tab) CDC
- Safety Tips (opens in a new tab) Pool Safely (CPSC)
What you can do today
Share this infographic with one family, coach or group chat today. You can also print it and post it where people gather near water.
