The high rate of accidents with small children
worldwide and insufficient safety precautions, prompted our company to attend the
problem by developing a swimming-pool alarm unit with financial support by the
Berlin city government.
The unit was designed considering highest
safety requirements, a minimum standard, we feel, should be met by all
swimming-pool alarm systems.
An expertise by the Technical University of
Berlin (Technical
University of Berlin) and references from companies both home and abroad, evaluate our
product as very recommendable under safety aspects.
In countries, where fences as a protective
measure are required by law people are looking for alternatives, since
statistics have shown no considerable decrease in accident rates.
Children up to 7 years of age are particularly
at risk, since they are known to prefer forbidden playgrounds. Most adults tend
to underestimate children's ingenuity, when it comes to finding ways to pass
over an obstacle.
Usually, a missing child will be searched for
in a pool secured by a fence or a pool cover only, after the search elsewhere
has proven unsuccessful. A time
consuming process that could have been avoided by an alarm and is often too
late. Only a loud acoustical alarm immediately attracts the search-party's
attention and indicates the exact location of the missing child, raising its
chances to get away frightened rather than hurt. Fences with doors secured by
automatic safety latches can be especially dangerous if the key is not found in
time.
Experience has shown that fences or pool covers
are obstacles that can easily be overcome, and which should only be installed
in conjunction with an acoustical alarm.
Upon request, we would be glad to send you the
expertise of the Technical University Berlin, a description of the safety requirements developed by us
and which should be met by all swimming-pool alarms, as well as other
information about our unit.
Consumers can also view a video clip about pool alarms. This is in "streaming video" format.
If you want to experience
more over the inventor that world-wide first swimming pool alarm installation,
then click “here”
. Here you find the book with the title " It harms that I did not
invent knocking off" (in Germany “Schade, dass ich das Abhauen nicht
erfunden habe”).
Thank you for your time, and we will appreciate
any comments you wish to make on this topic.
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your message please here
Mr.
K.-P. Kolbatz
Titiseestr.
27,
D-13469 Berlin,
Germany