Nova Scotia needs to write laws on pool safety, put body cameras on prison guards, and more, according to two new reports.

The reports come from two death review committees, released last week. One looked into a case of child dying in a pool facility, and another looked into the case of an inmate who died in a correctional facility.

The committees were created to look at how deaths could be prevented and make recommendations to the government based on those findings.

The Child Death Review Committee says that Nova Scotia has guidelines for pool safety that were written in 2014, but the province should move on and create laws around pool safety standards.

That includes having clear instructions nearby that explain what to do in an emergency, as well.

The Deaths in Custody Review Committee recommends the government make several improvements to how data is transferred from the health care system to the correctional system.

Part of that includes the government fulfilling its promise to have a one patient one record health care system.

They say correctional facilities need better ways of holding onto video and photo evidence related to the person and their death.

And they also recommend corrections officers wear body cams to help investigators review their actions.

The reports do not go into detail around the circumstances of the deaths, and the committees say they are avoiding specific details that could violate privacy.