Pool Rules
This is the correct age to swim without a parent in the building.
What is 8 years old
This is the correct rescue technique for an active drowning victim facing you.
What is the active from the front rescue?
These are the correct ratios for one rescuer CPR.
What is 30 compressions to 2 ventilations?
You see an active drowning swimmer out of reach of their swim instructor.
What is blow the whistle to activate the EAP, jump in and perform the appropriate rescue?
This is the leading cause of unintentional injury death among children aged 1-4 and one of the top three causes in persons 29 years or younger.
What is drowning?
This is how close a guardian must be to their child 5 and under.
What is within arms reach?
This is what you activate when blowing your whistle while jumping into the water for a rescue.
What is the EAP or Emergency Action Plan?
These are the requirements for CPR to change ratios.
What is at least two responders and the victim is an infant or child?
You see teenage girls in the pool making a tik tok video.
What is have them stop and explain that photos and videos are not allowed on the pool deck?
These are the circumstances when there is LEAST likely to be a spinal injury.
What is in deep water at a supervised facility?
Patrons are not allowed to do this in the middle of the current pool.
What is going under water?
This is how you enter the water with a victim who has a potential spinal injury.
What is a wave less entry?
These are the 5 reasons to stop CPR.
What is; unsafe environment, AED is analyzing, EMS is here and taking over, there are signs of life, and the rescuer is too exhausted.
You are guarding the lap pool when two kids ask to take the swim test to be able to swim in the lap pool. All of the lap lanes are full with adults.
What is let the kids know that lap swimmers have priority in the lap pool, but they are welcome to try after the pool empties in a little bit?
The percentage of youth drowning incidents that occur within 10 feet of safety.
What is 60%?
This is the patron to lifeguard ratio.
What is 1:25?
This is the hold performed on a victim with a suspected spinal injury.
What is the Over-Arm Head Splint?
This is the acronym to use for recognizing a potential stroke victim.
FAST
Face, Arms, Speech, Time
You are guarding the Rec pool while open swim is occurring. There is a family where the dad is playing roughly with his sons. The sons are then playing rough with one another. The dad encourages the behavior.
What is talk to the dad about his rough play, and if it continues bring out the Manager on Duty?
The percentage of children that drowned under some sort of supervision.
What is 88%
These pool tools are not allowed for patron use in the rec and adventure pool.
What are flippers and kickboards?
This is the correct response time from recognizing your victim and reaching them in the deepest and farthest point of your zone.
What is 30 seconds?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the acronym for performing a secondary assessment.
SAMPLE
Signs and Symptoms
Allergies
Medications
Prior Medical History
Last intake
Events leading up
You are guarding the Rec pool while swim lessons are occurring. The instructor turns their back on their class multiple times. The children on the wall are energetic and continually letting go of the wall.
What is correct the children on the wall and wait until after lessons are concluded to talk to the instructor about the worrying behavior seen?
This is the average amount of people that drown in Wisconsin per year.
What is 65?