Category: Water Related

8 year old non-swimmer accesses unsupervised pool and drowns

When safety management isn’t about relying on luck ...

When a catalogue of mistakes and mismanagement conspire to cause an extraordinary tragedy ...

When, by any standards, 2.3m is very deep, and by HSG179 standards is too deep for there to be no ...

When your safety procedures are described as ‘flawed at every level’ ...

When two girls spent five minutes trying to persuade a lifeguard that a swimmer was on the bottom of the ...

When visiting a public lake provides social benefit, and when the risk is obvious mean that the council is not ...

When the law considers a sensible balance between risks and benefits ...

When drinking and diving really don’t mix ...

When a man was found at the bottom of a quiet pool by another swimmer, not by the lifeguard… ...

When a near tragedy wasn’t prevented, partly because a member of staff’s lack of awareness of children’s behaviour ...