No matter how much you enjoy your pool or spa safety has to remain the top priority and as the old saying goes their no better defense against pool accidents than a good offense. We will go over some of the best ways to ensure your pool or spa is safe. The best way to start is to think of your pool or hot tub area with circles of defense. The most important area of defense is in supervision we can not watch or kids like we do in the house otherwise known as passive supervision we go about our daily chores while the kids play in their room or watch TV this type of supervision is not acceptable in the pool area we must maintain direct constant supervision and riley on alarms or bells to watch or pool or hot tub areas.

You must remember that you need to protect not only your kids but maybe a new puppy or the neighbor kids from entering your pool area. In the circle of defense you should start with a god quality fence that has an automatically locking gate, the next circle of defense is a pool alarm this will sound off if the pool is disturbed, follow this up with a security pool cover these three circles should ensure that no children or animals enter your pool with out adult supervision.

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