Lifeguarding Chapter 1 Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the primary responsibility of a life guard? - ✔✔To prevent drownings and other
injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
Examples of how lifeguards fulfill their primary responsibility (6 of them) - ✔✔Patron
surveillance, minimizing or eliminating hazardous situations or behaviors, enforcing
facility rules and regulations and educating patrons about them, recognizing and
responding quickly and effectively to all emergencies, administering first aid, CPR,
AED and/or emergency oxygen when needed and if certified, and working as a team
with other lifeguards, facility staff, and management
Secondary responsibilities should never... - ✔✔interfere with patron surveillance
Examples of secondary responsibilities (4-12) - ✔✔Testing the pool water chemistry,
assisting patrons through performing safety orientations, administering swim tests, and
fitting life jackets, cleaning or performing maintenance, completing records and reports,
and performing opening duties, closing duties, or facility safe checks or inspections.
Characteristics of a professional lifeguard (7 of them) - ✔✔Knowledgeable, skilled,
reliable, mature, courteous, consistent, and positive.
lifeguards should always... - ✔✔be attentive and sit or stand upright when on
surveillance duty
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the primary responsibility of a life guard? - ✔✔To prevent drownings and other
injuries from occurring at their aquatic facility
Examples of how lifeguards fulfill their primary responsibility (6 of them) - ✔✔Patron
surveillance, minimizing or eliminating hazardous situations or behaviors, enforcing
facility rules and regulations and educating patrons about them, recognizing and
responding quickly and effectively to all emergencies, administering first aid, CPR,
AED and/or emergency oxygen when needed and if certified, and working as a team
with other lifeguards, facility staff, and management
Secondary responsibilities should never... - ✔✔interfere with patron surveillance
Examples of secondary responsibilities (4-12) - ✔✔Testing the pool water chemistry,
assisting patrons through performing safety orientations, administering swim tests, and
fitting life jackets, cleaning or performing maintenance, completing records and reports,
and performing opening duties, closing duties, or facility safe checks or inspections.
Characteristics of a professional lifeguard (7 of them) - ✔✔Knowledgeable, skilled,
reliable, mature, courteous, consistent, and positive.
lifeguards should always... - ✔✔be attentive and sit or stand upright when on
surveillance duty
© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR 2025-2026, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
