As well as being an excellent way to keep fit, swimming is an enjoyable activity for children and adults alike. Swimming does carry obvious risks of course though and it is therefore essential that pool managers are vigilant in meeting health and safety standards. It only takes one lapse for a staff member or paying pool user to be seriously harmed.
It is very easy to suffer an injury at a swimming pool and children are at far greater risk due to their lack of awareness about potential dangers. Any sort of accident in and around the pool should be recorded in an accident book by a staff member.
If an accident does occur because the pool management failed to risk assess adequately or negate the risks around the pool in order to protect users, staff members may be deemed to have acted negligently. Any injuries that you or a family member sustain as a result could entitle you to make a compensation claim against the centre responsible.
Perhaps there was inadequate signage about the slippery surface or the depth of the water. Or, maybe the uneven or broken flooring in the changing rooms caused you to trip. Alternatively, the chlorine levels in the pool may have been excessive meaning that you burned your eyes. In any of these situations you could make a swimming pool compensation claim.
Your injury could also have been caused by another pool user who was not using the pool safely by jumping in or running on the slippery poolside. It is up to lifeguards to notice and stop this behaviour so that the pool is safe for other users. If the lifeguards did not act to prevent your injury, they could be said to have been negligent.
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