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Indoor Lifeguarding Protocols – Employee Happiness – Wage Structure

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What are Indoor Lifeguarding Protocols?

Learn some indoor lifeguarding protocols.

  • Dangerous situations that occur during change room checks.
  • What can cause a lifeguard to quit their job.
  • Brief history of Soviet Union.
  • Political Parties.
  • How our wage structure could be improved.
    • Indoor Lifeguarding Protocols
    Special Precaution
    • A child can drown a full grown adult.
    • Reach from shore.
    • Throw a flotation device to them.
    • Row to them.
    • Do not go.
      • Primer
      • No swimmers allowed in unguarded water.
      • One guard at every position required.
      • Lifeguards rotate positions during shift to maintain focus
      • Rotations are 15 to 240 minutes, depending on difficulty.
        • Minor Incident
        • Short tweet of the whistle.
        • Indicates guard has to leave position to attend to an incident
        • Another guard must cover that position.
        • If no one is available to cover, pool must be cleared of all swimmers.
          • Major Incident
          • Someone is in major distress.
          • Long loud tweet of whistle.
          • Everyone out of the water.
            • PIA Carry
            • Used to carry non-swimmer back to shore.
            • Once close to non-swimmer lifeguard will go under water and grab non-swimmer's waist.
            • Get non-swimmer's shoulders out of water to stop instinctive drowning response.
            • Lifeguard puts non-swimmer on hip then uses legs and one arm as propulsion back to shore.
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