The Water Safety Code

The Water Safety Code is the fundamental spine of all water safety education.

It is designed to provide simple and easy to remember information that acts both as a proactive measure to help people to educate everyone across the UK and Ireland to make early, critical decisions and also to help people to understand what they should do in emergency action.

Please help us share this crucial code

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