INTERNATIONAL
WATER SAFETY DAY MAY 15!
Striving to make a planet that’s 70% water, 100% water safe.
International water safety day is a global team effort to bring as much awareness of the statistics of drowning to the general population. And to educate children and adults on how to be safe in, on and around water.
In 2015, an estimated 360,000 people died from drowning, making drowning a major public health problem worldwide. In 2015, injuries accounted for over 9% of total global mortality. Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths.
And the most vulnerable are children ages 1 to 4 years, followed by children ages 5 to 14 years.
Drowning can take place in any body of water from as little as 2 inches of water in a bathtub, bucket or toilet to a landscape water feature, pool, pond, river, lake or ocean just to name a few.
- Drowning is silent and will go unnoticed if no one is actively watching.
- And that being said, drowning can happen even in the presence of lifeguards.
- But a non-guarded swimming pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child under the age of 4-years-old.
So to keep you and your family safe around water, make sure to:
- Always swim in a lifeguarded area.
- Learn swimming and water safety survival skills.
- Provide close and constant attention to children you are supervising in or near water.
- Children, inexperienced swimmers, and boaters should wear U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets.
- Provide adequate barriers around swimming pools, spas, and landscape water features.
- Also, know what to do in an emergency. If a child is missing, check the water first.
- And know when to call 911 and have easy access to reaching or throwing equipment, a cell phone, life jackets and a first aid kit.
And for more information on preventing accidents to keep you and your family safe, get the free water safety app. For the iTunes app store click here and for Google Play click here.
To participate in International Water Safety Day, simply share this email with as many people as you can on your favorite social media platform(s).
The more people we can reach, the closer we get to make our planet 100% water safe.
Thank you for your participation.
Love the water but fence it in,
Tessa
P.S. Test your knowledge of water safety. Take the quiz. You don’t have to enter any personal information. Get instant results.
P.P.S. Join my private Facebook group. If you need to help your child overcome their fear of water or if you’re a swim instructor and would like to share some tips and tricks on the subject, please join my private Facebook group here.
P.P.P.S. To start your child on the path to becoming water safe, click here.
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