Red Cross lifeguard practice TEST
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities - ✔✔to prevent drowning and other
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - ✔✔Monitor, work as a
team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - ✔✔Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - ✔✔Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - ✔✔Testing water chemicals,
cleaning or maintenance, completing records and reports
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? - ✔✔Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - ✔✔4 hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - ✔✔Surveillance
and recognition, water and land rescue skills, emergency response drills,
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 ____. - ✔✔Duty to Act and
Standard care
© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR 2025-2026, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities - ✔✔to prevent drowning and other
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - ✔✔Monitor, work as a
team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - ✔✔Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - ✔✔Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - ✔✔Testing water chemicals,
cleaning or maintenance, completing records and reports
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? - ✔✔Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - ✔✔4 hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - ✔✔Surveillance
and recognition, water and land rescue skills, emergency response drills,
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 ____. - ✔✔Duty to Act and
Standard care
© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR 2025-2026, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
