Swim, but by the rules!

Most often, the death of people on the water occurs through the fault of the drowning people themselves, as a result of frivolity, overestimation of strengths and capabilities. As a result of inept actions, panic and fear fettering a person arise.

 Ensuring the safe recreation of people on the water, and especially children, requires adults to organize bathing and strictly observe the rules of behavior for children in water bodies.

 In order for a child to be able to relax near the water with the benefit of his health, he must be able to swim, know and follow the rules of behavior on the water and see that these rules are respected by adults and especially parents.

          According to safety requirements, it is not allowed:

 - solitary, without adult control, bathing children and just finding them near a pond;

 - swimming in unequipped and prohibited for swimming water bodies;

 - use of watercraft not allowed for swimming (inflatable mattresses, car cameras, etc.);

 - it is strictly forbidden to carry out any activities on the water out of sight and without the provision of signaling, warning and communication means.

 The safety of children on the water is ensured by the right choice and equipment of bathing places, systematic preventive explanatory work on the rules of behavior on the water and the observance of safety measures by all categories of the population.

          The main preventive measure to prevent accidents on the water is swimming training!

          Requirements for the equipment of places of mass recreation for children and adolescents

          Each child should understand well that a safe place for swimming is a place specially equipped for this purpose - a bath (beach), which must meet the following requirements:

 - the coastal area of ​​the bathing area must meet sanitary and epidemiological requirements;

 - the bottom of the reservoir should be dense, have a gradual slope from the shore, devoid of ledges to a depth of 1.75 m, with a width from the shore of not more than 15 m, free from mud, algae, snags, stones and other objects, including debris;

 - bathing places are allocated upstream at least 500 m from wastewater discharge sites, port facilities, ship berths, piers, oil loading facilities, etc.;

 - in places of bathing there should not be an exit of ground waters with a low temperature;

 - whirlpools and funnels, the speed of the water flow should not exceed 0.5 m / s, and for bathing children - 0.3 m / s;

 - every year before the start of the swimming season, the bottom of the bathing place should be inspected by divers and cleaned of foreign objects, especially in those places where the last fish was caught.

 - for classes with children, the water area is inspected daily before the start of the event;

 - the boundaries of the water area in the bathing areas are marked with orange buoys located along the perimeter at a distance of 25-30 m from one another and up to 25 m from places with a depth of 1.3 meters;

 - on each beach a place for bathing children should be allocated and fenced;

 - the allocated coastal area must meet sanitary requirements, be landscaped, marked with a line of floats along the water, and fenced on the shore;

 - the depth in the bathing area for children should not exceed 1.2 meters

 Swimming areas should include:

 - toilets, changing rooms, trash cans, awnings, umbrellas, fungi for protection from the sun, fountains (tanks) with drinking water;

 - rescue posts and medical posts, suitably equipped and equipped with communication facilities and radio-equipped;

 - organized duty of rescuers, medical workers;

 - Stands with materials on the prevention of accidents on the water were designed.

          The Department of Emergency Situations of the Almaty Region asks residents to follow safety rules.

Department of emergency situations of Almaty region