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Welcome to Safe Kids Tulsa’s “Safe Pools for Safe Kids” campaign web site!
Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related accidental death among
children 14 and under in the U.S. and in Oklahoma. It’s the number one cause
of death among children one to four.
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- 300 residential swimming pool drownings occur every year in the U.S. of children 14 and under.
- In 2003, there were 4,200 near-drownings recorded in the U.S. – not accurate because of emergency room coding discrepancies.
- In both drownings and near-drownings, most children had been missing from sight less than five minutes and were in the care of one or both parents.
- 600,000 new residential pool owners in the U.S. between 2002-2004.
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Help Safe Kids keep Tulsa’s children safe around swimming pools and hot tubs.
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Important Layers of Protection
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Pool Safety Tips
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What Tulsa’s ordinances say about residential swimming pool safety
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Water Watcher Program
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Meet the Safer 3!
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More safety sites
You can refer to the following sites for more childhood injury prevention all year long:
National SAFE KIDS Campaign
www.safekids.org
American Academy of Pediatrics (TIPP: The Injury Prevention Program)
www.aap.org
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
www.cdc.gov
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