You can have a perfect summer holiday, having great fun in your garden, when it turns into a nightmare by an unattended child inadvertently walking into an open swimming pool that can prove fatal in a few minutes! How can you avoid such disastrous moments happening at your home? What are the safety devices like safety pool covers to make your pool a safe swimming pool?

Need for safety awareness

Having fun-filled enjoyable times at the swimming pool/spa if everyone’s goal. Teaching children safety habits right from start is needed. There are well-planned local safety edicts and laws which need to be adhered to strictly around swimming pools.

Basic safety features

A home swimming pool/spa needs implementation of safety devices like:
- Fencing
- Isolating from other parts of house
- Install self-locking and self-latching gates
- Doors and windows leading to pool locked
- Sufficiently high fences - 5 feet tall and with less than 4-inch wide gaps
- Non-climbable gates and fences
- Latches/locks beyond children’s reach
• Installation of alarms

• When not in use, by means of safety pool covers with locks, block all access to pool
• Teach swimming to children
• No toys left floating in water
• Anti-entrapment covers on pools’ drains
• Never allow any child unattended near pools

Some more important safety measures
Some more rules that help in avoiding untoward accidents like:

• Adequate lighting is a must around pools
• Avoid using pools if pool bottom is not visible - day or night
• Filter system/other mechanisms - not to be used for climbing or sitting
• Keep safety lines to delineate clearly shallow and deep areas
• Underwater alarm that sounds if and when anything hits the water
• Make all alarms audible enough inside and outside the house
• Store pool steps and ladders or lock behind a fence in when not in use

Protection of children - most essential
With more than 65% of drowning happening in swimming pools, safety concerns cannot be overemphasized enough. Most renowned firms like Pool Covers, Inc. have safety pool covers that are with child-proof locking mechanisms as well as strong enough to bear even more than one adult’s weight comfortably. They have products like safety pool fencing which is capable of creating a safety area around your swimming pool that cannot be breached by a child.

Make safety your first concern

Pool Covers Inc. gives valuable advice about right safety devices for your swimming pool safety including safety pool covers. Have great fun times but safely with installation of all right safety devices.

Author's Bio: 

Pool Covers Inc. committed to serve complete safest products to your swimming pool for California people. We specialize in several different types of safety swimming pool covers. We have an assortment of safety pool covers, including above and below ground-mounted units. Additional benefits include an increase in pool water temperature, a reduction in water and pool chemical use, prevention of debris from entering the pool, and energy savings.