Red Cross Lifeguard Practice Test
Questions & Answers
1. What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities
Answer to prevent drowning and otherinjuries
2. What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures?
Answer Monitor,work as a team, enforcing rules
3. What are lifeguards also responsible for?
Answer Secondary responsibilities
4. they must interfere with patron surveillance
Answer Never
5. what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities?
Answer Testing water chemi-cals, cleaning or maintenance, completing records
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6. If a child is running on the pool deck, the lifeguard sees the dangerous
activity and fails to correct it and the child gets injured, the legal consideration
would come into play?
Answer Negligence
7. How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month?
Answer 4hours
8. List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address?-
Answer Surveillance and recognition, water and land rescue skills, emergency
responsedrills,
9. if you find a unconscious adult that needs care while you are o the job, it is
your to and respond to that victim within you of .
Answer Duty to Act and Standard care
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