A Safe Environment

When making sure that your pool is a safe environment for children, must have a locked fence surrounding the pool. “A pool fence is always a huge safety feature to have,” Cartledge says. Be sure to move all of the furniture away from the lock so that children cannot reach the latch and unlock the fence. “Make sure that your chairs and everything like that are inside the pool area or at least not accessible so that they can’t stand on the chair or open the pool gate.” Another tip on pool safety is to make sure that toys are not floating around in the pool. “I always tell parents make sure you don’t have toys floating around in the pool because the kids will be reaching for a toy because they want the ball in the pool to play with it and then they will accidentally fall in because they were reaching for the toy in the pool,” Cartledge says.