Home water safety checklist

Walk through your home and yard with this list. Check off every layer you have, and make a plan for the ones you don’t. No single layer is enough.

Supervision
Barriers
Alarms
Covers & drains
Swim skills
Life jackets
Emergency ready
Away from home

If a child is missing, check the water first. In an emergency, call 911.Because of ADAM · becauseofadam.org

For babysitters and grandparents

Thank you for watching our kids. Around water, here’s how we do it:

  • If a child is missing, check the water first: pool, hot tub, bathtub, buckets. Then call 911.
  • When kids are in or near water, you’re the Water Watcher. Phone away, eyes on the water.
  • Toddlers stay within arm’s reach, in the pool and in the bath.
  • The pool gate stays closed and the alarms stay on. Please don’t prop doors open.
  • Empty buckets and kiddie pools when you’re done.
Our address
Parent phone
Second contact
Pool and bath rules

In an emergency, call 911.Because of ADAM · becauseofadam.org