Safety and Injury Prevention You can download this article as a PDF (English,Amharic, Arabic,Chinese, Oromo,Spanish,Somali, Tigrinya,Vietnamese).Insist on Adult SupervisionAlways swim with others.Set water safety rules.Swim in areas with lifeguards.Always provide constant attention to children you are supervising in or near water. Stay within arm’s reach of young children and inexperienced swimmers.Watch all children and teens swimming or playing in or near water, even if they know how to swim.Designate a water watcher when you are in or around water. Never use alcohol or other drugs during water-related activities.Remember to supervise young children around water when water play or swimming is not part of your plan.Wear a Life JacketEven if you or your child knows how to swim, children, teens and adults should always wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket:When on a boat, raft, stand-up paddle board or inner tubeWhen swimming in open water like a lake, river or the oceanWhen play...
