Bronze Medallion Questions Flashcards
What features can be found at a leasuire pool that are not present at a conventional pool?
Flumes
Wave machines
Lady river
What are the 3 groups of hazards around a swimming pool
Physical hazards
People hazards
Activity hazards
Name three common activity hazards found at a pool
Diving
Running
Ducking
How can you help keep children safe when you take them to the pool
Supervise them at all times
If needed them provide with armbands
Rivers are bodies of water that flow to where
Sea
Lakes
Reservoirs
What are tributaries
Supply channels to rivers
Smaller flows or water
What are estuaries
Tidal mouths of rivers (where they meet the sea)
What is a common hazard of the exposed water bed of estuaries
Drowning or entrapment because of thick sediment
What is a weir
A man made canal or over style flow dam used in rivers and canals to control the water level and flow
What are hazards of a weir
They create stable and powerful hydraulics
Slip, trip and fall hazard when walking across them
What activity creates the holes in the ground that quarry pools form in
Surface mining at quarries
What hazards are commonly found in quarry pools
Industrial scrap
Industrial pollutants
Deep cold water
Irregular water beds with sudden drop off
What injuries can be caused by jumping onto or swimming into scrap metal in these pools
Cuts and scratches
What is the danger of water beds with sudden drop offs in quarry pools
Drowning, you may be unable to swim
What natural process can cause fences and paths to fall away at cliff edges
Erosion
What hazards can cliffs cause
Slip, trip and fall hazard
Falling rock hazard
Cut off hazard
How do cliffs cause people to get cut off from the beach exits
By the flooding tide
On the beach how can you make sure that you don’t get trapped be cliffs and the flooding tide
Stay near the exit to the cliff
Keep a close eye on the water
What equipment at the beach indicates the wind strength and direction
An orange windsock
What colour are windsocks normally
Orange
At the beach which find direction often presents the greatest hazard for bathers
Away from the shore and out to sea
What factors affect the size and type of waves
Wind strength
Wind duration
Wind direction
Water depth
Seabed characteristics
Wind fetch
What are the types of waves
Breaking (spilling) waves
Dumping (plunging) waves
Surging wages
What are the hazards of dumping waves
Can break with tremendous force, knock paddlers from their feet and push swimmers onto the sea bed
Hazards of surging waves
May cause an unexpected build of water on the beach and beach users can be unaware, knocking them off their feet and dragging them into deep water
