The swimming pool of a hotel or holiday complex can be one of the major selling points in the brochure, but can also be one of the accident black spots. Care is often enough to avoid many of the injuries that could happen to you poolside, but every year there are some holidaymakers whose week in the sun ends, through no fault of their own, with the need to make a holiday accident claim.
That water, however, may contain more unpleasant substances than chlorine. Some pool water contains cryptosporidium, for example, a parasite that can cause sickness and stomach cramps severe enough to ruin a holiday. Care should therefore be taken not to ingest pool water, but you may be able to make a holiday accident claim should you be afflicted with this nasty bug.
Personal injuries by the pool
There are several personal injuries that could occur near the swimming pool. The most obvious is probably the possibility of slipping on water that has been splashed, or has overflowed, on to the surface around the pool. The hotel staff should be conscientious in keeping the pool area as safe as possible, and you can help to avoid an accident by walking carefully. Read more about holiday slips and falls.
Making a holiday accident claim for swimming pool injuries
If you have had your break spoiled by an injury, whether this happened around the pool or not, you may be entitled to compensation. Claims Help Online advisors are ready to discuss your case and to help you work out whether you could make a holiday accident claim.
It is obvious that extreme sports such as bungee jumping, paragliding and white water rafting are activities with an inevitable holiday accident danger. But the fact that they are high-risk does not mean that tour operators should ever be complacent about safety standards when organising these activities.
With extreme adventure activities such as bungee jumping, paragliding or white water rafting the danger of a holiday accident claiming lives rather than inflicting minor injuries is much higher than it would be with typical holiday activities such as playing golf, mountaineering, bird-watching or taking a dip in a hotel pool.
Adventure sports holiday operators must adhere to strict standards of health and safety. The danger of getting some aspect of safety or instruction wrong in these kinds of extreme sports is all too clear to imagine.
Holiday accidents and bungee jumping
Many believe that bungee jumping in particular, if not safely administered, presents an unacceptable holiday accident risk. Those from his school of thought have spoken of the many near-misses bungee jumpers in Britain experience each year without even knowing they have just put their lives at risk of a fatal holiday accident.
People such as one of the UK's leading forensic engineers, David Jones, have commented on how great the fatal holiday accident risk presented by bungee jumping is, "It could well be that over a period of time jump after jump can take place just under a margin of failure without anyone knowing it. There is an extremely high risk of a fatality happening."
It is essential that anyone considering taking a leap into the adrenaline-filled world of bungee jumping check the credentials of the jump operator. Unfortunately, in the UK right now, no standard accreditation for bungee operators exists.
Many people are not aware that the holiday accident danger of bungee jumping does not solely apply to the jumper. In some places in the world bungee jumping holiday accidents claim not only jumper's lives, but have in some cases also claimed the lives of spectators. |
