The single most effective prevention of drowning measure is the installation of a Safety Barrier to prevent unauthorised - or unsupervised - access to the water

A pool fitted with a Safety Barrier is far less likely to be the scene of an accident, and in many places such a barrier is required by law

Read a little about your legal liabilities - and here's lots more information on general pool safety; what you can do to your own pool to make it the safest place it can be

A swimming pool is a difficult environment for any equipment to deal with - 24/7 exposure to weather, chemicals, damp and humidity all contribute to the harsh conditions.

Anything that has to last for several years around a pool is probably not going to be cheap and Safety Barriers are certainly no exception to this. However, they are vital safety equipment and, if you find them a bit beyond your immediate financial reach, - look here . . 

Barriers come in 3 main categories: -

Fences

Nets

Covers

Each has it's advantages and disadvantages - although there are NO disadvantages to the prevention of drowning

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We supply all plant and equipment featured on this website. All our work is Guaranteed; Parts and Labour

For free and unbiased advice, a site visit or no-obligation Quotation*, please make initial enquiries by email. Tell us a little about your pool problem and include a daytime phone number. Thanks, we look forward to meeting you soon

Note: - Please contact our recommended pool professionals for supply and installation of all pool-related services: - 

All of Spain and Portugal  -  poolsafetyspain.com - for all aspects of Pool Safety

Nerja area - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

*We only offer Quotations: - a fixed, agreed price that cannot, and will not, be increased. We do not give 'estimates', as an estimate offers the client no guarantee of final price

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Keeping safe around water is not difficult to do; it just needs some planning, some forethought and a lot of vigilance

Click on the links below to read about how you can make your pool safe and avoid accidents 

General Pool Safety 

• - Broken Glass

• - Chemical Accidents

• - Diving & Slides

• - Emergency Numbers

• - Ladders & Steps

• - Lifeguard

• - Pool Rules for Adults

• - Safety Liability

• - Safety Statistics

• - Safety Tips

• - Suction Inlets

• - Wasps

Life-saving Emergency Procedure

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation

• - CPR Courses

Be safe on Holiday

Holiday and New Homes

• - Safety Checklist

Pool Alarms 

• - Pool Alarms Overview

• - Infra Red Alarms 

• - Wristband Alarms

Pool Safety Barriers 

- Paying for Safety Equipment

- Pond Safety - DIY Pond Nets

- Pool Fences

- Pool Safety Nets - DIY Katchakid

- Pool Safety Covers - Pool Cover Safety

Kids Section

- Safety for Kids

- Babysitters

- Pool Rules for Kids

- Shallow Water Blackout - THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DROWNING IN THE WESTERN WORLD! (And you may never have even heard of it)

- Swimming Lessons

Pets 

Safety for Pets

                        - Scamper Ramp

We supply all plant and equipment featured on this website. All our work is Guaranteed; Parts and Labour

For free and unbiased advice, a site visit or no-obligation Quotation*, please make initial enquiries by email. Tell us a little about your pool problem and include a daytime phone number. Thanks, we look forward to meeting you soon

Note: - Please contact our recommended pool professionals for supply and installation of all pool-related services: - 

All of Spain and Portugal  -  poolsafetyspain.com - for all aspects of Pool Safety

Nerja area - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

*We only offer Quotations: - a fixed, agreed price that cannot, and will not, be increased. We do not give 'estimates', as an estimate offers the client no guarantee of final price

Share this website with other Pool Owners and Users,  encourage them to read about Pool Safety, learn CPR and help them to save lives, time and money. Please help us to make every pool a safer place - by sharing this information we can cut the number of pool accidents and deaths.  Please also see our Facebook page

Ken Walker - MyPoolGuru©

- in a pool is very bad news. To avoid getting any broken glass in your pool keep all glassware - that's bottles, glasses, salad-bowls, candle-holders, ash-trays, etc. - well away from the pool area

By 'well away' I mean not near the pool and not in the pool area. Buy unbreakable Polycarbonate bar-ware and plates for use around the Pool, Deck or Terrace

Clear glass is almost invisible when it's in the pool (although it does fluoresce under a bright 'black-light' source) and represents a very real danger to swimmers, which is why I'm forever advising our clients and subscribers to keep all and any glass items away from the pool to reduce the chances of any broken glass getting into the water

Pool Safety goes a lot further than installing a security barrier to prevent kids falling in the pool - you should also plan ahead to prevent accidents from happening, like this one . . .

In the summer of 2006 we were called out to a pool where an accident had taken place

There had been a pool party the previous evening and, somehow, a glass had been left on the steps. When the pump started up on the timer in the morning the jets washed the glass off the steps and it rolled into the pool

About 11a.m. the teenage son dragged himself from his bed, jumped into the shallow end and landed on the broken glass. The glass shattered under his foot, lacerating his sole and slicing the tendons of his foot

He was hospitalised for emergency surgery, spent the rest of the summer hopping about and is (possibly) still limping from the experience. Like so many ex-pats he was not covered by Medical Insurance. That was just the start of their financial troubles

As mentioned above, clear glass is invisible in water and so, wishing to avoid further accidents, the parents agreed over the phone that the pool should be emptied to ensure that all remnants of the broken glass were removed. (Draining the pool and sweeping the floor is the only 100% sure way to remove all the glass)

The pool was on an Urbanisation without main drains and so the pool had to be emptied by tanker trucks; at a cost of €520

The tanker company could not begin the work for a few days and in that time the pool went green (all Chlorine had been depleted by the blood in the water), the pH rose and the walls of the pool and the sand-filter became badly calcified

We carried out the repairs to the pool; we acid-washed the walls, replaced the Silex in the filter with Zeolite and arranged for the pool to be re-filled by the same chuckling tanker driver – at a further cost of €660 for the water

We then supplied the start-up pool-chemicals, etc, etc. Perhaps in total the whole affair cost the family somewhere around €5-6000 including the private medical bills. Quite an expensive party, all in all!

In early February 2007 I attended the Spatex Pool Exhibition in Brighton and found, amongst other pool-related items, an elegant collection of Polycarbonate Barware; something for which I had been searching for quite some time

The advantage of Polycarbonate is that it is unbreakable in normal use and is therefore safe to use around the pool, it looks and feels like traditional glass, is microwave-safe and good for 2000 dishwasher cycles. The manufacturers, who are in New Zealand, guarantee their hand-finished products for 5 years.

(It's cunningly called Click-Clack; for the noise they make when you 'clink' glasses!)

Please visit http://www.poolschool.eu who carry a stock of Click-Clack

We supply all plant and equipment featured on this website. All our work is Guaranteed; Parts and Labour

For free and unbiased advice, a site visit or no-obligation Quotation*, please make initial enquiries by email. Tell us a little about your pool problem and include a daytime phone number. Thanks, we look forward to meeting you soon

Note: - Contact our recommended Pool Professionals for supply and installation of all pool-related services: - 

Andalusia and the Costa del Sol - Pool Safety Spain

Nerja area - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Each of the above offers years of experience, free unbiased advice and excellent, Professional service.

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Ken Walker - MyPoolGuru©