Red Cross Lifeguarding Multiple Choice
Exam Questions and Answers | Detailed
Rationales and Full Explanations | Grade
A+
What is the primary responsibility of a lifeguard?
A | To encourage patrons to participate in water safety educational programs
B | To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
C | To schedule and participate in frequent in- service trainings
D | To deliver patron safety orientations and administer swim tests -✓✓B | To
prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
Lifeguards should:
A | Keep a cell phone in their hip packs at all
times, in case of emergency.
B | Stay alert by eating at the lifeguard stand.
C | Always be attentive and sit or stand upright when on surveillance duty.
D | Assist patrons with swim testing when on surveillance duty. -✓✓C | Always be
attentive and sit or stand upright when on surveillance duty.
A lifeguard is texting while on surveillance duty and fails to recognize a swimmer
in distress. What legal principle could be a problem for this lifeguard?
A | Negligence
B | Abandonment
C | Refusal of care
D | Consent -✓✓A | Negligence
Why is it important to attend a pre-season orientation and training?
A | To ensure that lifeguards understand their responsibilities and know how to
perform their job
B | To ensure that lifeguards get practice with their facility's safety and rescue
equipment and emergency action plans
C | To ensure lifeguards understand codes, rules and regulations of the facility
D | All of the above -✓✓D | All of the above
What is the best practice for the frequency of in-service training participation at
well-managed aquatic facilities?
, A | At least 1 hour of in-service training each month
B | At least 4 hours of in-service training each year
C | At least 1 hour of in-service training each day
D | At least 4 hours of in-service training each month -✓✓D | At least 4 hours of
in-service training each month
. As a lifeguard, you are responsible for:
A | Ensuring that your facility is in compliance
with local, state and federal regulations.
B | Creating and reviewing your facility's policies and procedures manual.
C | Consistently enforcing your facility's rules and regulations.
D | Creating rules, regulations and emergency action plans. -✓✓C | Consistently
enforcing your facility's rules and regulations.
1. Which list of typical safety checklist items, along with others, applies to a
lakefront swimming area?
A | Water chemistry, circulation system, drain covers, starting blocks
B | Bottom conditions, pier attachments, buoys, safety lines
Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags
C | Emergency shut offs, tubes, communication between ride dispatch and landing
D | Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags -✓✓B | Bottom conditions,
pier attachments, buoys, safety lines
Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags
2. Which list of typical rules, along with others, applies to a lakefront swimming
area?
A | No diving in shallow water, no running on pool deck, shower before entering
the water
B | Ride slides feet-first, stay on tubes, observe minimum height or weight
requirements
C | No swimming under piers, no fishing near swimming area
D | Shower before entering, limit time in high temperature water, remove swim
caps -✓✓C | No swimming under piers, no fishing near swimming area
6. Lifeguards should be actively ___________ their zones.
A | Changing
B | Watching
C | Creating
D | Searching -✓✓D | Searching
Exam Questions and Answers | Detailed
Rationales and Full Explanations | Grade
A+
What is the primary responsibility of a lifeguard?
A | To encourage patrons to participate in water safety educational programs
B | To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
C | To schedule and participate in frequent in- service trainings
D | To deliver patron safety orientations and administer swim tests -✓✓B | To
prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
Lifeguards should:
A | Keep a cell phone in their hip packs at all
times, in case of emergency.
B | Stay alert by eating at the lifeguard stand.
C | Always be attentive and sit or stand upright when on surveillance duty.
D | Assist patrons with swim testing when on surveillance duty. -✓✓C | Always be
attentive and sit or stand upright when on surveillance duty.
A lifeguard is texting while on surveillance duty and fails to recognize a swimmer
in distress. What legal principle could be a problem for this lifeguard?
A | Negligence
B | Abandonment
C | Refusal of care
D | Consent -✓✓A | Negligence
Why is it important to attend a pre-season orientation and training?
A | To ensure that lifeguards understand their responsibilities and know how to
perform their job
B | To ensure that lifeguards get practice with their facility's safety and rescue
equipment and emergency action plans
C | To ensure lifeguards understand codes, rules and regulations of the facility
D | All of the above -✓✓D | All of the above
What is the best practice for the frequency of in-service training participation at
well-managed aquatic facilities?
, A | At least 1 hour of in-service training each month
B | At least 4 hours of in-service training each year
C | At least 1 hour of in-service training each day
D | At least 4 hours of in-service training each month -✓✓D | At least 4 hours of
in-service training each month
. As a lifeguard, you are responsible for:
A | Ensuring that your facility is in compliance
with local, state and federal regulations.
B | Creating and reviewing your facility's policies and procedures manual.
C | Consistently enforcing your facility's rules and regulations.
D | Creating rules, regulations and emergency action plans. -✓✓C | Consistently
enforcing your facility's rules and regulations.
1. Which list of typical safety checklist items, along with others, applies to a
lakefront swimming area?
A | Water chemistry, circulation system, drain covers, starting blocks
B | Bottom conditions, pier attachments, buoys, safety lines
Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags
C | Emergency shut offs, tubes, communication between ride dispatch and landing
D | Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags -✓✓B | Bottom conditions,
pier attachments, buoys, safety lines
Wave height, tide charts, rip currents, beach flags
2. Which list of typical rules, along with others, applies to a lakefront swimming
area?
A | No diving in shallow water, no running on pool deck, shower before entering
the water
B | Ride slides feet-first, stay on tubes, observe minimum height or weight
requirements
C | No swimming under piers, no fishing near swimming area
D | Shower before entering, limit time in high temperature water, remove swim
caps -✓✓C | No swimming under piers, no fishing near swimming area
6. Lifeguards should be actively ___________ their zones.
A | Changing
B | Watching
C | Creating
D | Searching -✓✓D | Searching
