What is the duty of care of a lifeguard?

Answer 1

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervise the pool area.
• Ensure the safety and well-being of all patrons.
• Enforce all rules in a professional manner.
• Respond to emergencies.
• Care for injuries, sudden illnesses, and other medical emergencies: give first aid, CPR, oxygen, etc.

Other Responsibilities:

• Complete cleaning tasks as assigned.
• Check pool chemicals.
• Complete paperwork.
• Answer telephones.
• Register patrons for aquatic programs.

Note: Some employers require employees to attend monthly in-service meetings to learn important updates and to refresh lifeguarding skills.

Answer 2

The most commonly-used job description of a lifeguard that seems to transcend all facilities and areas is thus:

To ensure the safety of all patrons present by enforcing facility regulations, monitoring activity, and rendering emergency care in the event that a patron suffers from an incident. Furthermore, lifeguards are also responsible for maintaining the quality of a facility by regulating the behavior of patrons.

All other responsibilities are usually, in one way or another, either directly or indirectly related to the points given above.

Answer 3

Primary Responsibilities

• Supervise pool or beach areas
• Ensure the safety and well-being of all patrons
• Enforce rules to prevent injuries and illnesses
• Perform water rescues and assists.
• Respond to emergencies and provide aid as needed

Secondary Responsibilities

• Checking chemicals
• Answering telephones
• Checking pool passes (residential communities)
• Cleaning (picking up trash, straightening pool furniture, vacuum pool, secure or remove lane ropes, etc.)

Other

• Attend inservice and staff development meetings if required by your employers.

A lifeguard has the legal responsibility to protect others. Negligence can result in serious consequences.

Answer 4

It depends on you certification, I'm E&A so for me it's "Maintain skills at a rescue ready level, always have a proactive 10/20 on my zone of protection and keep a professional image at all times.", but that's more of a textbook answer, to be bold and truthful, you clean a lot when you're a life guard.

A 10/20 is a scanner pattern of your water, you look at every part of your pool every ten seconds, you have ten seconds to spot a drowning and twenty seconds to reach the GID (Guest In Distress) and began giving aid.

Some certifications don't make their guards keep a 10/20 and never even get in depth with scanning, but trust me when I say, even if your certification doesn't MAKE you keep a 10/20, if you never want someone to die on your watch, keep one anyways.

Answer 5

The role of a lifeguard may vary depending on where one works, but the bare minimum requirements are to ensure the safety of patrons and usually the basic upkeep and maintenance of a facility. Other common roles are Water Safety Instructors, Head Guards (Boss of the other guards), and Pool Maintenance.

Answer 6

To ensure safety and responsibility of everyone that are in your watch.