Month: May 2019

Memorial Day Weekend is underway. Your teen’s supervisor is now contacting your teen through text and phone calls about the schedule. Please sit down with your teen and teach them the importance of staying on top of their extra curricular activities, medical appointments, school activities, vacations, and their obligations to their job. Here are some tips to help teach your teen responsibility.

1. Look at your month a head. If you have any important commitments such as those items listed above, make sure your teen communicates the dates in advance. Not the day before a shift.
2. Look at the job policies regarding requesting off. Make sure you show your teen how to adhere to these policies.
3. Follow up with dates needed off by email. Supervisors are human too and make mistakes. If you have a paper trail that’s great.
4. If there is a mistake, try to teach your teen to do the communication. NO OFFENSE, your teen’s supervisor doesn’t want to hear from you. They want to work with your teen.
5. If your child is sick, get a doctor’s note if you can, and if it warrants a note.
6. If your child is not physically fit to do the job, inform the supervisor. We understand that medical emergencies happen.
7. If an incident occurred at work, teach your teen how to communicate their concern with their supervisor. Every supervisor wants to make sure that your teens feel safe, supported, and valued.
8. If your child is running late, teach them to communicate their tardiness. No calls or a message is not acceptable.
9. It’s okay to set boundaries for when your child can and can not work. You are their parents. This includes how many hours, how many days, and when they will finish up work.

More to come in how your teen and their supervisor can create a professional relationship for the summer!

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When Lifeguards Blow 3 whistles it means?

Lifeguards go through 12.5-32.5 hours of intensive training that focuses on proper pool surveillance, preventing emergencies, and responding to emergencies. We highly recommend that facilities have a minimum of 2 guards, but understand that a majority of pools are single guard facilities. Under no circumstances should patrons be performing any type of rescue care unless you are trained to do so and have the proper licenses/certifications to provide such care, as we want to make sure that we are not putting lives in jeopardy. If you hear 3 whistles, a patron needs help either in the water or on the deck around and near the pool.

What can you do to help if the lifeguards need assistance, or they are by themselves?

1. Help the lifeguards lift a victim out of the pool through the direction of the trained lifeguard. ( NOT assisting with the in-water rescue)

2. Patrons can Call 911 or your local emergency number to report the emergency and get more advanced care.

3. Patrons can help manage the Crowd and direct emergency personnel to the location of the emergency.

4. Getting supplies ( meaning gathering, not opening or managing the equipment) such as the backboard, AED, first aid kits, and notifying other staff that might be present and the parents if it is their child in the emergency. We highly recommend that at multiple guard facilities, the trained team responds and patrons can assist with calling emergency care.

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When Lifeguards Blow 3 whistles it means?

Lifeguards go through 12.5-32.5 hours of intensive training that focuses on proper pool surveillance, preventing emergencies, and responding to emergencies.

If you hear 3 whistles, a patron needs help either in the water or on the deck around and near the pool.

What can you do to help?

1. Help the lifeguards lift a victim out of the pool ( NOT assisting with the in-water rescue)

2. Calling 911 or your local emergency number.

3. Crowd control and directing emergency personnel to the location of the emergency.

4. Getting supplies such as the backboard, AED, first aid kits, and notifying other staff and the parents of the kids.

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Lifeguards and cell phones are no game. Here is what you can do to help keep your pool safe! I just posted a live video going over what you can do!

Lifeguard/community engagement lesson #2

Concern from community member: the lifeguard is on their cell phone and not even watching the pool. I am annoyed as I am paying dues for this service:

A: Your pool management company and property management company HEAR you loud and clear. You have every right to be upset as the safety of your pool and your service is being jeopardized. There are two things we recommend that you do.

1. You have every right to go up to the lifeguard and politely tell them that you would appreciate it, if they watched the pool. See if talking to them first corrects the action.

2. You can notify your property manager and pool company. Be factual, state the date, the time, and if you can the name of the guard on duty.

Disclaimer: while pictures and videos are helpful, and yes you are on public property, the guard might be under the age of 18. The lifeguard and their legal guardians have a right to file a report against you. How this ends depends on the facts in the event, state laws, and property rules. However, the pool companies that we have professional relationships with, or who are clients ALL have a zero tolerance policy for cell phone usage at the pool.

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