Research in lifesaving - Developing the plan

Swimming pool injury data: Improvements to lifeguard training

B. L. Dr. Matthews, Waters, W., and Acocks, C., Swimming pool injury data: Improvements to lifeguard training, in World Conference on Drowning Prevention, Porto, Portugal, 2007.

1. Introduction

At present, in the aquatic industry incidents are reported using one or more first aid and/or incident report forms that are facility specific. Some facilities use forms that gather a great deal of information, others have no minimum requirement of information. In addition, there is no evidence of this information being cross referenced between centres for comparison. As a result there is very little evidence to describe the extent of injuries/incidents that occur in commercial aquatic facilities.

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