Making your Backyard Pool an Unpenetrable Fortress
A simplified guide to Quebec’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act, and what more needs to be done
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ABCs of backyard pool safety
With summer on the horizon, it’s time to have a serious discussion about backyard pool safety. If you have a backyard pool, or regular use someone else’s, you need to stop what you’re doing and give this article your complete focus for the next 3 minutes.
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What defines a child who “can swim by themselves” and at what age should kids be allowed to swim unsupervised?
This is an extremely relevant topic, as all parents worry about the dangers of kids swimming. We will aim to answer 2 extremely important questions here:
1. What defines a child “being able to swim”?
2. At what age should kids be allowed to swim unsupervised (if at all)?
What We Can Control & What We Do About the Stuff We Can’t
Renting pool space greatly limits the control we have over the premises.
Let’s point out the obvious advantage to renting pool space, before going deeper into our analysis: Using someone else’s pool greatly reduces operating and start up costs. These savings are passed onto our clients.
The main disadvantage is that this greatly limits our control over the premises. We will highlight 3 main areas where this lack of control can influence the swimming lessons we offer.
What’s the Deal with Secondary Drowning?
Definitions, symptoms, treatment and prevention of secondary drowning.
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