CPSC Releases Study on Pool Alarm Reliability--
Barriers, Supervision Still Key to Preventing 350 Child Drownings Each Year
Press Release # 00-113
Transcript
There is no spoken audio for this video but there are background sounds. The picture sequence is as follows:
- Screen reading: "Underwater alarms generally performed better than surface alarms. They were most consistent in alarming and less likely to false alarm than the other types of alarms. When a test object, intended to simulate the weight of a small child, was pushed into a pool, the underwater sensors detected it most reliably. The underwater alarms also can be used in conjunction with pool covers, whereas the surface alarms cannot. One surface alarm performed almost as well as the underwater alarms. CPSC advises that consumers use remote alarm receivers so the alarm can be heard inside the house."
- Person standing at the edge of a pool and pushing an object into the water with their foot and walking away.
- Sound of underwater sensor.
- Close up of underwater sensor while still sounding.
- Another angle of sensor (still sounding).
- View of sensor (still sounding).
- View of remote alarm receiver inside house (sensor still sounding outside).
- View of window.
- View of receiver inside the house.
- View of kitchen counter and far view of window.
- Person standing at the edge of the pool and pushing an object into the water and walking away.
- View of a pool alarm (sounding).
- Front view of pool alarm (sounding).
- View of somebody pushing two objects into the water.
- Alarm inside the water.
- Another angle of alarm inside the water.
- Screen reading: "Pool alarms that performed well in the CPSC tests: Poolguard by PBM Industries; Sentinel LINK by Lambo Products Inc.; and PoolSOS by Allweather Inc."
- Three different types of pool alarm boxes.
- Close-up of box reading: "Pool Alarm."
- Close-up of box reading: "Sentinel Link Pool Alarm with Remote Receiver."
- Alarm on table.
- Far view of alarm on table.
- Screen reading: "Barriers should completely surround the pool. Gates should be self-closing and self-latching."
- View of pool.
- View of yard.
- View of gate.
- View of another gate.
- Another angle of gate.
- Gate
- Someone unlatching and walking in, gate closes behind them.
- Screen reading: "If the house serves as one side of the barrier around the pool, the doors leading from the house to the pool should have an alarm to detect unsupervised entry into pool area."
- Child opening a door and walking out of the house. Alarm sounding in the background.
- Someone open a little door of an alarm. Alarm is still sounding.
- Screen reading: "A power safety cover over the pool can help prevent drowning when pool is not in use."
- Cover being put over the pool.
- Other angle of cover being put over the pool.
- End