At Distinguished Pools, you will find a courteous and knowledgable staff of professionals to help you with all of your swimming pool construction, remodel, and repair needs in San Diego County.

Swimming Pool Safety

Distinguished Pools is committed to pool safety. Even if you don't have children, being safety conscious is essential for the well-being of everyone who may find themselves on your property, invited or otherwise. Whether you already have a pool or are considering building a pool, please take a moment to review the following information.

Layers of Protection

Safety advocates promote "layers of protection" to prevent drowning:

• Supervision: Eyes-on supervision means no reading, talking on the phone, or other activities that may divert attention from watching children in or near the water.
  
  
• Barriers: Prevent inadvertent access to your pool, spa, and other water features by having proper barriers in place.
  
  
• Be prepared: Can range from ensuring your children know aquatic survival skills and learning CPR yourself, to knowing where the electrical cut-off switch for your pool or spa pump is.
  
  

Pool Barriers

The National Association of Certified Home Inspectors has a great article on barrier guidelines.

Aquatic Survival

If you do have young children in the house, consider water safety lessons. The Distinguished kids learned to swim the Infant Swimming Resource way. We highly recommend this method that can teach aquatic survival skills to children as young as 6 months old. If you'd like to talk to us about ISR, don't hesitate to call or email us, or contact one of our ISR Instructors, Krista or Erin.

We believe so strongly in this method that Distinguished Pools will pay for a set of inital lessons (up to six weeks) for two children living in any household where we build a new pool. ISR provides lessons to children ages 6 months to 6 years.

Safety Links

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has several pool and spa safety publications available that cover a range of topics, such as drain entrapment, barrier guidelines, and general safety tips.

The American Academy of Pediatricians provides this list of Pool Safety Tips.

Drowning Prevention from the State of California website.

Get pool and spa safety tips, safety checklists, and a printable water watcher tag from SafeKids USA.

Learn about Healthy and Safe Swimming from the CDC.