Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Campaign

At a glance

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week promotes steps that everyone can take to prevent disease, drowning, and pool chemical injuries. This year's theme — Splash Your Way into Fun, Not Germs — focuses on the steps that children and their caregivers can take to stay healthy when visiting splash pads.

Toddler wearing bathing suit walking through splash pad with words Healthy and Safe Swimming Week 2025 across the image.

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, pool chemical injuries, and drowning.

This year's theme — Splash Your Way into Fun, Not Germs — focuses on the steps that children and their caregivers can take to stay healthy when visiting splash pads.

Resources

The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Communications Toolkit provides resources to help public health professionals promote healthy and safe swimming messages.

Girl playing in splash pad with Healthy and Safe Swimming Week text across the picture
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Communications Toolkit
Communications Toolkit for partners to use to promote Healthy and Safe Swimming Week messages.
Children playing in a splash fountain
What You Can Do to Stay Healthy at Splash Pads
Prevent germs from spreading and from making your child sick when visiting splash pads.
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Content Source:
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); National Center for Environmental Health