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. Identify three strategies for ensuring safe group visits. - ✔✔✔-Answers include: ■ Booking
procedure. Before the visit, group leaders should provide the aquatic facility with information
about how many group members and supervisors will be visiting, including swimmer
characteristics such as percentage of swimmers and nonswimmers. ■ Safety orientation.
Conducted when the group first arrives at the facility. ■ Classification of swimming
abilities/Swim testing. Swim tests are administered to determine if a visitor has the minimum
level of swimming ability required to participate safely in activities, such as swimming in water
over their head or riding on certain slides. ■ Designation of swimming areas. Swimming areas
should be clearly marked and defined according to swimmers' abilities and intended use. ■
Identification of group leaders or adult chaperones. Your facility should use an identification
system so that lifeguards and other facility staff can easily locate group leaders or adult
chaperones. ■ Buddy systems and buddy checks. Provide an additional layer of protection,
specifically with larger groups including camps.
. In a waterpark setting, what additional items might be included in a safety checklist? - ✔✔✔-
Answers should include: ■ Shoreline is clean and free of sharp objects ■ Bottom conditions are
free from hazards ■ Water conditions are safe for swimming ■ Piers are anchored, stable, free
from trip or injury hazards ■ Lifeguard stands and surrounding areas are clear of objects
. Which scanning challenge often occurs at waterfronts but should not exist at pools? - ✔✔✔-
Murky water
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? - ✔✔✔-Negligence
A lifeguard on duty should be able to recognize and reach a drowning victim within: - ✔✔✔-30
seconds
A victim in the water is not breathing. - ✔✔✔-Always remove a victim who is not breathing
from the water as soon as possible to provide care. However, if doing so will delay care, then
perform inwater ventilations until you can remove the victim.
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After an emergency has been resolved, there are still three important tasks to complete. Explain
each task. - ✔✔✔-Report
Fill out the appropriate incident report form as quickly as possible after providing care.
Advise
Give the victim safety instructions to prevent a similar incident from recurring or recommend
that the person follow-up with a health care provider.
Release
In some cases, you will release the person under their own care or to a parent, guardian, camp
counselor, group leader, instructor, or other staff members.
All of the following describe appropriate care for a conscious person with an airway obstruction
(choking) EXCEPT: - ✔✔✔-Check the victim for breathing and a pulse for no more than 10
seconds.
An EAP for a missing person includes quickly checking if the person is in the water. Checking for
a submerged victim is most difficult for which area? - ✔✔✔-Underneath play structures at a
waterfront with murky water
As a lifeguard, you are responsible for: - ✔✔✔-Consistently enforcing your facility's rules and
regulations.
At waterfront facilities using swim tests for group visits, areas for nonswimmers should: - ✔✔✔-
Be separated from the swimmer area with a continuous barrier, such as a pier or buoyed
lifeline.
Backboards are a standard piece of rescue equipment used at aquatic facilities for immobilizing
and removing the victim from the water. Backboards work best when they are equipped with: -
✔✔✔-1. A chest strap to secure the victim to the board
2. A head-immobilizer device that can be attached to the top, or head-end, of the board.
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Describe four ways that additional lifeguards can help during spinal backboarding and
extrication from the water. - ✔✔✔-Answers should include four of the following: ■ Helping to
submerge, position, and stabilize the backboard on deck ■ Supporting the in-water rescuer in
deep water ■ Supporting the backboard while the chest strap and head-immobilizer are
secured. ■ Securing the chest strap or the head-immobilizer device ■ Communicating with and
reassuring the victim ■ Guiding the backboard as it is being removed from the water ■
Removing the backboard from the water ■ Providing care after the victim has been removed
from the water
Describe six actions you should take or determinations that you should make while performing a
scene size-up: - ✔✔✔-1. Use your senses to check for hazards that could present a danger to
you or the victim.
2. Use appropriate PPE.
3. Determine the number of injured or ill victims.
4. Determine what caused the nature of the illness; look for clues to what may have caused the
emergency and how the victim became injured or ill.
5. Form an initial impression that may indicate a life-threatening emergency.
6. Determine what additional resources may be needed
Describe the actions of the additional safety team members listed below during a rescue where
the victim is unresponsive and requires additional emergency care. - ✔✔✔-Other lifeguards:
1. Assist with the rescue by providing emergency care.
2. Provide back-up zone coverage or clear the area.
Additional safety team members: (Front desk staff, maintenance staff or others as designated by
the EAP)
1. Summon EMS Personnel.
2. Bring additional equipment if necessary.
3. Clear the area or facility.
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. Identify three strategies for ensuring safe group visits. - ✔✔✔-Answers include: ■ Booking
procedure. Before the visit, group leaders should provide the aquatic facility with information
about how many group members and supervisors will be visiting, including swimmer
characteristics such as percentage of swimmers and nonswimmers. ■ Safety orientation.
Conducted when the group first arrives at the facility. ■ Classification of swimming
abilities/Swim testing. Swim tests are administered to determine if a visitor has the minimum
level of swimming ability required to participate safely in activities, such as swimming in water
over their head or riding on certain slides. ■ Designation of swimming areas. Swimming areas
should be clearly marked and defined according to swimmers' abilities and intended use. ■
Identification of group leaders or adult chaperones. Your facility should use an identification
system so that lifeguards and other facility staff can easily locate group leaders or adult
chaperones. ■ Buddy systems and buddy checks. Provide an additional layer of protection,
specifically with larger groups including camps.
. In a waterpark setting, what additional items might be included in a safety checklist? - ✔✔✔-
Answers should include: ■ Shoreline is clean and free of sharp objects ■ Bottom conditions are
free from hazards ■ Water conditions are safe for swimming ■ Piers are anchored, stable, free
from trip or injury hazards ■ Lifeguard stands and surrounding areas are clear of objects
. Which scanning challenge often occurs at waterfronts but should not exist at pools? - ✔✔✔-
Murky water
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? - ✔✔✔-Negligence
A lifeguard on duty should be able to recognize and reach a drowning victim within: - ✔✔✔-30
seconds
A victim in the water is not breathing. - ✔✔✔-Always remove a victim who is not breathing
from the water as soon as possible to provide care. However, if doing so will delay care, then
perform inwater ventilations until you can remove the victim.
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After an emergency has been resolved, there are still three important tasks to complete. Explain
each task. - ✔✔✔-Report
Fill out the appropriate incident report form as quickly as possible after providing care.
Advise
Give the victim safety instructions to prevent a similar incident from recurring or recommend
that the person follow-up with a health care provider.
Release
In some cases, you will release the person under their own care or to a parent, guardian, camp
counselor, group leader, instructor, or other staff members.
All of the following describe appropriate care for a conscious person with an airway obstruction
(choking) EXCEPT: - ✔✔✔-Check the victim for breathing and a pulse for no more than 10
seconds.
An EAP for a missing person includes quickly checking if the person is in the water. Checking for
a submerged victim is most difficult for which area? - ✔✔✔-Underneath play structures at a
waterfront with murky water
As a lifeguard, you are responsible for: - ✔✔✔-Consistently enforcing your facility's rules and
regulations.
At waterfront facilities using swim tests for group visits, areas for nonswimmers should: - ✔✔✔-
Be separated from the swimmer area with a continuous barrier, such as a pier or buoyed
lifeline.
Backboards are a standard piece of rescue equipment used at aquatic facilities for immobilizing
and removing the victim from the water. Backboards work best when they are equipped with: -
✔✔✔-1. A chest strap to secure the victim to the board
2. A head-immobilizer device that can be attached to the top, or head-end, of the board.
, Red Cross Lifeguard Review Packet Exam with Questions and Answers – 100%
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Describe four ways that additional lifeguards can help during spinal backboarding and
extrication from the water. - ✔✔✔-Answers should include four of the following: ■ Helping to
submerge, position, and stabilize the backboard on deck ■ Supporting the in-water rescuer in
deep water ■ Supporting the backboard while the chest strap and head-immobilizer are
secured. ■ Securing the chest strap or the head-immobilizer device ■ Communicating with and
reassuring the victim ■ Guiding the backboard as it is being removed from the water ■
Removing the backboard from the water ■ Providing care after the victim has been removed
from the water
Describe six actions you should take or determinations that you should make while performing a
scene size-up: - ✔✔✔-1. Use your senses to check for hazards that could present a danger to
you or the victim.
2. Use appropriate PPE.
3. Determine the number of injured or ill victims.
4. Determine what caused the nature of the illness; look for clues to what may have caused the
emergency and how the victim became injured or ill.
5. Form an initial impression that may indicate a life-threatening emergency.
6. Determine what additional resources may be needed
Describe the actions of the additional safety team members listed below during a rescue where
the victim is unresponsive and requires additional emergency care. - ✔✔✔-Other lifeguards:
1. Assist with the rescue by providing emergency care.
2. Provide back-up zone coverage or clear the area.
Additional safety team members: (Front desk staff, maintenance staff or others as designated by
the EAP)
1. Summon EMS Personnel.
2. Bring additional equipment if necessary.
3. Clear the area or facility.
