Owner`s manual
Club Piscine Super Fitness - Above Ground Swimming Pool - Owner’s Manual (03/2012) 22
Safety Tips
Check with your town or city to fi nd
out the rules for putting up a fence
around your pool.
Build a fence and a gate that will keep
children away from your pool.
Keep the gate locked at all times.
ALWAYS have an adult watching
children in and around the pool.
Children under the age of 3 and
children who cannot swim must
wear a life jacket or PFD (personal
fl oatation device).
Send children to swimming and water
safety lessons.
Make sure lifesaving equipment and a
fi rst aid kit are handy.
Take a course on pool safety, fi rst aid
and lifesaving skills (such as CPR).
Have emergency phone numbers listed
at the telephone closest to the pool.
Make sure toys, garden furniture and
tools are not near the pool fence.
Children can climb up on these things
to get into the pool.
To learn more about water safety
and learn-to-swim programs, please
call your local Canadian Red Cross
Society, or the local Branch Offi ce of
the Lifesaving Society.
Swimming Pool
Safety
Each year, many children drown in backyard swimming pools
and in small kiddie pools.
Children are in danger because:
They like to play in water.
They move quickly.
They can drown in only a few centimetres (1 inch) of water.
Why do these drownings happen?
Sometimes the pool is not fenced in all the way around.1.
Sometimes the gate to the backyard is not shut all the way 2.
or locked.
Sometimes a young child gets to the pool through a patio 3.
door or garage door that opens into the backyard.
For more information contact
Product Safety, Health Canada:
1-866-662-0666
www.healthcanada.gc.ca/cps
cps-spc@hc-sc.gc.ca
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Health, 2005
Reprinted 2010
Cat.: H46-2/05-404
ISBN: 0-662-68854-6
HC Pub.: 100092