Tips to Protect Your Guests When Hosting a Party in Your Home

Serve Alcohol With Caution

Whenever you serve alcohol at a party, you increase your risk of problems. However, most party guests want to relax and drink while celebrating, so you may feel obligated to serve it. If you decide to offer libations, be sure you understand your state’s liquor liability laws, and be careful with how you serve alcohol. Keep the following considerations in mind.

• Alternate Beverages: Drinking is a social thing for a lot of people. If you offer a lot of alternatives to alcoholic beverages, people may choose non-alcoholic beverages more often than you anticipate. Offer a large variety. Provide sodas, bottled water, fruit-flavored fizzy drinks, virgin cocktails, tea, coffee, punch, grape juice, orange juice, and flavored sparkling water.
• Party Food: Serve a lot of food when you serve alcohol. Keep the snacks and more substantial fare coming when the booze is pouring. When guests eat while they drink, their bodies won’t absorb the alcohol as quickly, and it can prevent some bad behavior. Foods you may want to serve include whole wheat crackers, popcorn, mini paninis, bananas, and chips with dip.
• Minors: If you have minors at your party, be sure that anyone who serves alcohol knows who is underage. No alcohol should be offered to them under any circumstances. That’s true even if they have parental approval. If you notice that a teen has managed to drink alcohol at your party, take it away immediately, inform their parents, and ensure they get home safely right away.
• Transportation: Take control of how drunk people will be leaving your party. Set ground rules from the start of the party and make sure everyone knows about them. You may choose to be or hire a designated driver for any guest who needs it. Alternately, have a ride-sharing service app ready to go and be sure each guest gets safely in the car when the driver shows up.

When you take the time to plan how you will safely serve alcohol, you’ll be less stressed on the day of your party.

Stay Away from the Pool and Hot Tub

If you have a swimming pool and a hot tub, they are likely treasured areas of your home where you like hanging out. Guests are likely to gravitate to those areas if they’re invited to do so, but it’s best to establish those areas as off-limits when you’re throwing a party. That doesn’t mean you can’t share them with friends at another time, but they shouldn’t be a hot spot at a big party. If you plan to host a pool party, you can hire a pool remodel professional to add safety features to your swimming pool, such as a no-slip deck, pool fence and safety alarm, and a few pet safety equipments.

Slip and fall accidents are common around the areas immediately around swimming pools and hot tubs. It can be hard to keep those areas dry if you have guests coming in and out of the water throughout the entire party. If you decide to allow guests into these areas (or if they ignore your requests to stay away), be sure to check for still water and spills frequently to avoid accidents. You can also place an anti- slip floor matting for precaution. And if, unfortunately, you have a pool accident victim, take them to the nearby emergency care center.

Once you’ve taken them to the emergency care centre, the patient might have to go through a lot of tests and whatnot to determine if there are any broken ribs or other similar injuries.
If in case they’re diagnosed with a broken rib, extra care needs to be taken, especially once they’re out of the hospital. For instance, once they’re home and are trying to sleep, you might have to teach them how to sleep with broken ribs until they’re cured, so that they don’t hurt themselves any further. So to avoid all of this hassle in the first place, try to stay away from the pool and hot tub.

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