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Playing it safe: assessing safety before accidents can occur at your facility is key. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid.(Safety)
You can find a wealth of material in water-safety texts and pool-operation manuals. But much of it tends to be dated. The bibles of water safety simply cannot keep up with relatively new knowledge and information that has been discovered recently about drownings and vigilance. Much of this vitally important information may not have made it into the textbooks yet and, if it has, it may not be sufficiently emphasized. My Top 10 List is an attempt to highlight safety lapses and oversights that are documented after a drowning takes place. Many of these safety breaches or problems have only more recently been uncovered through lawsuits, empirical evidence and more structured ...
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