Pool Fencing is even more important during the holidays in Florida! We tend to leave doors and windows open more often when the weather is cooler. We also tend to have more guests coming to visit. Holiday guests are wonderful but they also may be less careful and cautious about pool safety than you and I. They also may bring children with them that don't know how to swim. This can lead to a dangerous situation around the pool which a simple Pool fence from Pool Guard of Tampa can rectify. Pool Guard of Tampa has made it easier than ever to give the gift of Pool Safety. We accept all major credit cards and we have 48 hour turn around on most pool fence installation in the Tampa bay area, even during the holiday season! Baby fences by Pool Guard of Tampa services the entire Tampa Bay area including: Hillsborough county, Pasco county, Pinellas county: Add Comment A recent research paper written by our State Health Department titled: Correlation of Pool Drowning Deaths With Number of Residential Swimming Pools by County in Florida, 2005-2007 Michael Lo, Kristal Hall, Lisa VanderWerf-Hourigan, Bob Vincent, and Robert Pryor has quite a bit of information to put toddler drowning deaths into perspective; especially for Hillsborough County FL; Tampa has a large number of residential pools which is correlated with an increased incidence of toddler pool drowning; Making toddler drowning deaths somewhat predictable. We know every year we will loose children. Some Quotes from the paper: Statistical modeling showed that for every 10,000 residential pools that a County has, 2.4 additional pool drowning deaths can be expected to occur over Three years. This relationship was therefore determined to be linearly correlated. Greater public health impact may be achieved by focusing drowning prevention Efforts, especially among young children, in counties with more residential pools; And thus a greater risk of pool drowning Of the 120 young children ages one to four who drowned in confirmed, single-family Residential swimming pools, 82 (68.3%) drowned in a pool at their own Home; nine (7.5%) drowned in a pool at a grandparent, uncle, or other relative’s Home; five (4.2%) drowned in a pool at a friend’s home; five (4.2%) drowned in a Pool at a neighbor’s home; and one (0.8%) each drowned in a pool at a babysitter’s Home, a summer home, or a vacation rental house. Sixteen (13.3%) drowned in a Pool at a home of another or an unspecified individual. Acknowledgments This study was partially supported by grant/cooperative agreement U17/CCU424766-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The authors thank the Florida county property appraisers’ offices that participated in this study, and Kyla Shelton, Office of Injury Prevention, Florida Department of Health, for technical assistance in analyzing the free-text fields in the death certificate database. see www.atampapoolfence.com fTampa, St.petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Palm Harbor, Westchase, New Tampa, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco county Fl. Pool Fence Tampa, Baby fencing by pool Guard Tampa Bay, Pool gate safety www.atampapoolfence.com and www.poolsafetyfences.com support the St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Safe Kids program. This program is designed to provide useful information and resources to help keep kids safe. Pool Guard safety fencing is listed as a water safety resource. Pool Guard fences are astm certified and meets or exceeds all requirements set forth in the Residential Pool Safety Act of 2000. Pool Fences by Pool Guard of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater can be reached at (813) 929-8729 For more information on the Safe Kids program call (813) 615-0589 | ArchivesFebruary 2012 CategoriesAll |



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