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American Red Cross Lifeguarding Chapter 1-3
Review Questions & Answers
1. What is the primary responsibility of a lifeguard?
Answer To prevent drowning and other injuries from occuring at the aquatic facility
2. 3 examples of how lifeguards fulfill their primary responsibility
Answer 1. Monitor- ing acivity
2. Preventing injuries
3. Enforcing facility rules
3. 5 secondary responsibilities that cant interfere with patron surveillance
Answer 1. Testing pool water chemistry
2. Performing safety operations
3. Cleaning or performing maintenance
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4. Completing records or reports
5. Performing opening and closing duties
4. 5 characteristics of a professional lifeguard
Answer 1. Skilled
2. Reliable
3. Mature
4. Polite
5. Postive
5. Lifegurds should
Answer Always be attentive and sit or stand upright when on surveil- lance duty
6. 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 life- guard?
Answer Negligence
7. List the five steps that a lifeguard should take when obtaining consent from an
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