Red Cross lifeguard practice TEST 2023
(solved)
What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities - Answer- to prevent drowning and other
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - Answer- Monitor, work
as a team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - Answer- Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - Answer- Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - Answer- 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? - Answer- Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - Answer- 4
hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - Answer-
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 ____. - Answer- Duty to Act and
Standard care
when there is a unconscious adult, you don't not need consent cause they are
unconscious you already have what? - Answer- Implied consent
It is important to take care of all ____ immediately after an incident has been wrapped
up in order to avoid forgetting important details. - Answer- Documentation
Most states have _____ _______ laws that protect people who stop and render aid in
good faith, within their scope of training and who are not negligent. - Answer- Good
Samaritan
Three pieces of equipment that must be easily accessible for emergency use are what?
- Answer- Backboards, first aid kit, AED
(solved)
What is a lifeguards primary responsibilities - Answer- to prevent drowning and other
injuries
What can lifeguards do to prevent drowning and other injures? - Answer- Monitor, work
as a team, enforcing rules
What are lifeguards also responsible for? - Answer- Secondary responsibilities
they must ____ interfere with patron surveillance - Answer- Never
what are 3 examples for secondary responsibilities? - Answer- 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? - Answer- Negligence
How many hours are you supposed to have in service training per month? - Answer- 4
hours
List 3 annual, preseason or in service training sessions might address? - Answer-
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 ____. - Answer- Duty to Act and
Standard care
when there is a unconscious adult, you don't not need consent cause they are
unconscious you already have what? - Answer- Implied consent
It is important to take care of all ____ immediately after an incident has been wrapped
up in order to avoid forgetting important details. - Answer- Documentation
Most states have _____ _______ laws that protect people who stop and render aid in
good faith, within their scope of training and who are not negligent. - Answer- Good
Samaritan
Three pieces of equipment that must be easily accessible for emergency use are what?
- Answer- Backboards, first aid kit, AED
