Section 1: The Lifeguard, Swimming Pool & Supervision Flashcards
What does COSHH stand for?
Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health
REACH stands for?
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of chemicals
PPE stands for?
Personal Protective Equipment
Sign Colours meanings?
Red = Prohibiting a behaviour in or out of pool
Yellow = Warning
Blue = Mandatory
Green = Emergency Escape or First Aid
What Does NOP Stand for?
Normal Operation Procedures
EAP stands for?
Emergency Action Plan
Why is teamwork essential in lifeguarding
To know that whatever action that you do as a lifeguard that you thought was right, you know that your team will have your back.
How to deal with complains
Lifeguards must keep conversation to a minimum but if it can’t, pass the swimmer to a team on dry side
What does PSOP stand for?
Pool Safety Operation Procedures
What does the PSOP have
It has the NOP and EAP
Examples of NOP content
- Pool measurements & Depth
- details of the alarm systems
- lactation if first aid equipment
Examples of EAP content
- Violence
- discolouring of the pool
- overcrowding
- Blood spotted in pool area
What is a hazard?
Something with potential to cause harm
What is a risk?
How likely it is that harm will be caused
Why can leisure pools be the hardest to keep swimmers safe?
Lots of blind spots (like lazy rivers and decorations) that hide the public and there would be a higher need for more lifeguards on pool duty to cover the spots
What control can lifeguards do for non-swimmers?
Keeps them on the shallow end and make sure that if they’re really young, that they have a guardian with them
Examples of high risk swimmers
Babies, old people, people who are in drugs or alcohol and pregnant women
‘Managing Health and Safety in Swimming Pools’ recommends that children under ……. have to be supervised
8 Years Old
Examples of Task and Activity Hazards that can occur in a swimming pool
- Dunking people in water / play fighting
- water games (ball games)
- running
- diving
- bombing
Why is early intervention Important?
It can prevent an hazardous situation from being fatal if early action is performed correctly
How can lifeguards communicate to staff and swimmers to prevent accidents?
Hand signals, blowing their whistle, talking directly or through walkie talkie (if it is for staff)
Name the types of whistle blows and what are they used for
1 blow = get the attention of a swimmer
2 blows = request to talk to another. lifeguard
3 blows = lifeguard is entering pool to perform a rescue
Long Blow = everyone must e leave pools, for either for evacuation or because pool time is over
What is the Natural Scan:20 scanning system?
Scan the area naturally and have to make sure to reach the part of the pool that’s the furthest in a maximum of 20 seconds
What is a zone?
The area that the lifeguard must scan and keep safe
What can lifeguards do to keep their assertiveness high?
- change their scanning patterns
- count the swimmers
- keep posture good
Name possible blind spots
- Overcrowding
- Discoloured water
- obstacles / inflatables
- decorations
- pillars
What are maximum user loads?
The maximum number of a certain action in the pools (eg, using floats)
When should the panic alarm be triggered?
- When a rescue is to be performed
- Water is discoloured
- Very serious first aid needed
- Serious violence in the pool
What training should be done when using technology?
- how to use them
- what the alarms sound like and where they’re located
- what action that needs to be done once the alarm is triggered
- what to do if the alarms fail, once triggered
