Pool Safely: Virginia pool industry’s ability to identify drowning and injury risks, and facilitate risk mitigation or removal, at residential and public pools: A virtual educational event.
Facilitated by The Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health Services and the Office of Family Health Services, Injury and Violence Prevention Program for pool service, maintenance, construction professionals and organizations focused on promoting injury prevention for children.
Registration (virtual) site: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3479088302881122831
This event will deliver key messages on risk factors that pool industry professionals are uniquely placed to spot and mitigate, such as missing drain covers, unsafe ingress and egress features, lack of 4-sided barrier systems, damaged fencing, gates, or latches, and missing safety equipment. Education efforts will focus on describing risks, connecting the risks to negative health outcomes, and identifying interventions that pool professionals can take to mitigate or remove the risk, or facilitate risk removal by others (owners of pools, including residential pools).
Hear from experts in the field of pool industry, along with data, fatality review, and public risk communication experts.
For more information, contact the Virginia Department of Health Injury and Violence Prevention Program at ivp@vdh.virginia.