Monthly Archives: June 2010

Share Your Summer Safety Tips for a Chance to Win a Free Roll of PEM

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Summer’s almost here and it’s time to spend your days lounging by the pool, taking the boat out on the lake or hitting the golf course. But with all of that fun, there also needs to be safety precautions taken. To help spread a message of summer safety, PEM Surface Creations wants to hear your summer safety tip’s on twitter! And the best part is if you participate you will have the chance to win a free roll of our slip-resistant matting. Easy and fun, we know. So, help out your fellow summer enthusiasts and have the chance to win something in return. Here’s how you do it:

  1. Login to www.twitter.com
  2. Share your summer safety tip; it has to be a general safety tip related to pool, golf, marine or playground safety.
  3. All tips must mention @PEMSurface to be entered in the contest. Participate as many times as you would like!
  4. A weekly winner will be chosen at random.
  5. We will contact winners via a twitter direct message for mailing information.
  6. The contest will run four weeks. Beginning June 14 and ending July 9.

Prize:

2ft x 15ft of PEM slip-resistant matting in our most popular color – hunter green

Rules:

Open to US and Canada residents only. All winners must be 18 years of age or older. PEM Surface Creations is not responsible for and will not consider incomplete or incorrect entries, or entries sent but not received by for any reason, as potential contest winners.PEM Surface Creations will mail the contest prize to the address supplied by the winner. Within 15 days of being notified of winning the winner will be expected to respond. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. PEM Surface Creations is not required to award elsewhere any prizes forfeited by the chosen winner(s). PEM Surface Creations or representation may not be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of any winners of a prize once possession has been taken of the product by winner. PEM Surface Creations reserves the right to alter any rules of any contest at anytime. Inappropriate or vulgar entries will be removed. Void where prohibited.

New Guidelines for Toddlers Swimming Lessons

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Before last week, swimming lessons were only recommended for children ages three and up. But after careful consideration of pool safety concerns, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has lowered the recommended age of swimming lessons to toddlers as early as age one.

The AAP has found that with some swimming instruction, young children can avoid drowning, especially among the increasing number of backyard and community pools. Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children ages one to 19 years, and about 1,100 children died of drowning in the United States each year.

Children on average are just beginning to take their first steps around their first birthday. As the amount of toddlers increase around the pool for swimming lessons, so will the risk for toddlers slipping and falling.

To help decrease slipping around pool areas, PEM Surface Creations provides aquatic matting as a unique solution to aquatic facilities to reduce slippage and provide padding and comfort for bare feet. PEM’s aquatic matting provides a textured surface that is excellent for wet and high traffic areas to help protect parents and toddlers who are not sure footed.

Recently Nickelodeon Family Suites in Orlando, Florida installed PEM aquatic matting and reported all time lows in slips and falls in their water park. The aquatic application is used extensively around the water park including high traffic areas, like the stairs and platforms leading to the slide.