Contact with an object, contact with a wall or the floor, slip, human error, contact with another person and water incidents have been outlined as the top six causes of swimming pool accidents.
The report, which was developed for Right Directions’ accident benchmarking platform STITCH, found that swimming pools were the second most likely place for an accident to occur, with changing rooms coming in third.
Most likely to have an accident within the swimming pool area were children aged 8 -15, however more than 96% of these were considered not preventable. This age group are also the most likely to have an accident within the changing rooms, where just over 5% of incidents could have potentially been prevented.
