Worksafe Queensland has issued an alert that covers a range of issues surrounding safety at swimming pools.
We would like to remind pool operators that they should manage health and safety risks by:
- Conducting an aquatic supervision risk assessment
- Preparing a supervision plan
- Providing trained pool lifeguards, pool supervisors and first aid officers
- Ensuring young people or people with limited swimming competency such as children are accompanied by adults who need to supervise them
- Ensuring children under five years of age are constantly supervised by an appropriate parent/guardian who is prepared to swim (adequate supervision means the parent/guardian must accompany the child in the water and always remain within arm’s reach)
- Ensuring children under ten years of age are constantly accompanied by an adult while in the aquatic area
- Ensure unsupervised children under five years of age are removed from the water and placed in a safe area until collected by the parent/guardian
- Ensuring an unsupervised child of poor swimming ability, regardless of age, is removed from the water by a staff member
To find out more, visit this link: https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/news-and-events/alerts/incident-alerts/2021/safety-at-swimming-pools
