Life guarding precedant
FACT TIME
2012-13 season
| Region | Total hours patrolled | Number of rescues | Number of First Aids | Number of searches | Number of preventative actions | Safety interventions |
| Northern | 80,048 | 643 | 789 | 134 | 37,196 | 131,610 |
| Eastern | 57,769 | 428 | 579 | 60 | 38,956 | 131,054 |
| Central | 41,817 | 348 | 433 | 102 | 18,684 | 36,159 |
| Southern | 32,344 | 226 | 178 | 61 | 19,397 | 51,004 |
| SLSNZ total | 211,978 | 1,645 | 1,979 | 357 | 114,233 | 349,827 |
Definitions:
Total hours worked: Total hours worked by all Surf Lifeguards.
Number of rescues: A 'rescue' is an instance where a person requires assistance to return to shore (or a place of safety) and whom without assistance would have suffered distress or injury, or drowned. This column records all these rescues.
Number of first aids: A 'first aid' is any incident where a victim is administered some form of first aid treatment. This column records the total number of these incidents.
Number of searches: A 'search' is any organised search for a missing person (or group of people) either at land or on sea. This includes body recovery. This column is the total number of searches conducted.
Number of preventative actions: A 'preventative action' is where a lifeguard identified a potentially dangerous situation and takes precautionary action to prevent the situation from developing into or contributing to a real emergency, for example:
http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/
http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/lifeguarding/patrolled-beaches/patrol-statistics/
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With lifeguarding i thought back to when i life guarded, and what i thought could be need of improvement and or something entirely new to make something safer.
My first idea is to have a beacons stationed along the beach in your patrol area, that when activated responds and alerts the patrol about that alert in that area and will come straight there, this is because of when on patrol and its packed your priority is to those in the flags, and if something happens outside the flags and we dont see it, this beacon can actiavte to inform us of something going wrong in the area.
My second idea came from the transport of first aid equipment. This is that when being called out to scene you have to take the first aid euipment with you. but there is no actual place for the first aid equipment on the quad bike for instance, and we have it strapped on with bungy cords. i then asked my fellow life guards around new zealand and they to dont have a place for thier first aid equipment on the quad bike. this is both inefficent for the rescue and dangerous to you and other people along the beach. so i propsed making a compartment for the first aid equipment.
My final idea came from brother when i asked him the question of what can be improved saftey wise for surflife saving. And the first thing that he commented on about is that it is really hard to concentrate on the instructions from the base when using the radio on the quad bike or IRB for transportaion to a rescue scence. So i again asked my fellow life guards, and this too seemed to be a very important reoccuring theme. so i want to make something for this idea, and i shall research onto this.
Total hours worked: Total hours worked by all Surf Lifeguards.
Number of rescues: A 'rescue' is an instance where a person requires assistance to return to shore (or a place of safety) and whom without assistance would have suffered distress or injury, or drowned. This column records all these rescues.
Number of first aids: A 'first aid' is any incident where a victim is administered some form of first aid treatment. This column records the total number of these incidents.
Number of searches: A 'search' is any organised search for a missing person (or group of people) either at land or on sea. This includes body recovery. This column is the total number of searches conducted.
Number of preventative actions: A 'preventative action' is where a lifeguard identified a potentially dangerous situation and takes precautionary action to prevent the situation from developing into or contributing to a real emergency, for example:
- Shifting the flagged area during the day due to a change in surf conditions
- Preventing swimmers from entering a rip or hole
- Removing broken glass from the beach
- Checking on a swimmer who may appear to be in difficulty
- Clearing the beach of swimmers because of a suspected shark sighting
- Shifting board and ski riders out of the flagged area
http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/
http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/lifeguarding/patrolled-beaches/patrol-statistics/
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With lifeguarding i thought back to when i life guarded, and what i thought could be need of improvement and or something entirely new to make something safer.
My first idea is to have a beacons stationed along the beach in your patrol area, that when activated responds and alerts the patrol about that alert in that area and will come straight there, this is because of when on patrol and its packed your priority is to those in the flags, and if something happens outside the flags and we dont see it, this beacon can actiavte to inform us of something going wrong in the area.
My second idea came from the transport of first aid equipment. This is that when being called out to scene you have to take the first aid euipment with you. but there is no actual place for the first aid equipment on the quad bike for instance, and we have it strapped on with bungy cords. i then asked my fellow life guards around new zealand and they to dont have a place for thier first aid equipment on the quad bike. this is both inefficent for the rescue and dangerous to you and other people along the beach. so i propsed making a compartment for the first aid equipment.
My final idea came from brother when i asked him the question of what can be improved saftey wise for surflife saving. And the first thing that he commented on about is that it is really hard to concentrate on the instructions from the base when using the radio on the quad bike or IRB for transportaion to a rescue scence. So i again asked my fellow life guards, and this too seemed to be a very important reoccuring theme. so i want to make something for this idea, and i shall research onto this.
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