Drowning risks: an update on best practices

What recommendations to avoid any risk of drowning?

To swim safely

• learn how to swim;
• always bathe with your children;
• choose the monitored bathing areas;
• comply with the bathing prohibitions;
• Take into account your fitness status.
• do not drink alcohol before and during swimming.

In your pool

• bathe with your children or designate a single adult responsible for supervision;
• do not do anything else when your child is bathing;
• don't look at your phone or tablet;
• do not leave, even for a few moments;
• be particularly careful when swimming in swimming pools

  above ground

  (not buried): After swimming, take particular care to remove the access ladder and settle safety devices where they exist (alarm, blanket, etc.).

The devices do not replace active, ongoing supervision of children by an adult.

At sea

• swim in the supervised bathing areas;
• swim accompanied or by signaling your place of bathing;
• swim with an open water swimming buoy;
• swim along the shore.

The 'Aquatic Aisance' plan

Initiated in 2019 by the Ministry responsible for Sports, the Aquatic recreation is a program designed to give children the basics they need to be safe in an aquatic environment while raising their awareness of the pleasures of water.

This summer, courses and courses are organized under several schemes:

• Operation I learn to swim

  . These courses are free (upon registration and subject to availability). They are mainly aimed at children aged 4-12 in priority neighborhoods and rural areas;
• The

  Aisance Aquatique blue classes

  as well as trainings of speakers are held all over France during the summer.