Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Campaign

At a glance

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week promotes steps that everyone can take to prevent disease outbreaks, drowning, and pool chemical injuries. This year's theme is Prevent Drowning: Swim Lessons Save Lives. It highlights the role basic swimming and water safety skills training plays in keeping children and adults safe around the water.

A group of children around 8-10 years old with goggles on their heads standing and the end of the pool next to each other and smiling.

Overview

Swimming is a fun, healthy way to stay physically active and spend quality time with family and friends. Healthy and Safe Swimming Week highlights the roles that swimmers, caregivers, aquatics and beach staff, residential pool owners, and public health officials play in preventing disease outbreaks, drowning, and pool chemical injuries.

This year's theme — Prevent Drowning: Swim Lessons Save Lives — focuses on the crucial role basic swimming and water safety skills training plays in keeping children and adults safe around water.

Resources

The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Communications Toolkit provides resources to help public health professionals promote healthy and safe swimming messages on social media, websites, and other communication channels.

Children in a pool holding on to the edge and kicking their legs behind them while all in a row smiling.
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Communications Toolkit
Communications Toolkit for partners to use to promote Healthy and Safe Swimming Week messages.
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Content Source:
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); National Center for Environmental Health