What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities - ANSWER to prevent drowning and other
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - ANSWER Monitor, work
as a team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - ANSWER Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - ANSWER Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - ANSWER Testing water chemicals,
cleaning or maintenance, completing records and reports
If a child is running on the pool deck, the lifeguard sees the dangerous activity and fails to
correct it and the child gets injured, the legal consideration _______ would come into play? -
ANSWER Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - ANSWER 4
hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - ANSWER
Surveillance and recognition, water and land rescue skills, emergency response drills,
if you find a unconscious adult that needs care while you are o the job, it is your ____ to
____ and respond to that victim within you _____ of ____. - ANSWER Duty to Act and
Standard care
1
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - ANSWER Monitor, work
as a team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - ANSWER Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - ANSWER Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - ANSWER Testing water chemicals,
cleaning or maintenance, completing records and reports
If a child is running on the pool deck, the lifeguard sees the dangerous activity and fails to
correct it and the child gets injured, the legal consideration _______ would come into play? -
ANSWER Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - ANSWER 4
hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - ANSWER
Surveillance and recognition, water and land rescue skills, emergency response drills,
if you find a unconscious adult that needs care while you are o the job, it is your ____ to
____ and respond to that victim within you _____ of ____. - ANSWER Duty to Act and
Standard care
1
