Updated 26 May 2025
SGE Portal review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
What are the 5 points of Risk Management?
✓✓ 1) prevention 2) surveillance 3) response and rescue 4) emergency
care 5) workplace expectations
What is the term to explain being paralyzed from the
waist down?
✓✓ Paraplegia
What is the term to explain being paralyzed from the
neck down?
✓✓ Quadriplegia
What can cause lifelong paralysis?
✓✓ Diving headfirst into shallow water
What is the term to explain passing out underwater
due to lack of oxygen?
✓✓ Sudden Underwater Blackout/ Hypoxic Blackout
The most common injury is what and what are
examples?
, Updated 26 May 2025
✓✓ Impact injuries - body hitting other riders or objects, slipping or
falling
The most dangerous hazard in an aquatic facility is?
✓✓ The behavior of people that use the facility
Risk of illness can come from?
✓✓ Bloodborne pathogens
What fluid carries a higher risk of infection than other
bodily fluids?
✓✓ Blood
Infections bloodborne diseases include?
✓✓ Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
How is bloodborne disease transmitted?
✓✓ Direct contact or entering your body through a wound etc.
What is PPE
✓✓ Personal Protective equipment- gloves, CPR mask, glasses (eye
protection), shoesHow
, Updated 26 May 2025
Anytime you encounter the bodily fluids of others you
should use what to prevent contact?
✓✓ PPE
How to remove contaminated gloves?
✓✓ 1) pinch glove at base and pull inside out 2) take free hand and slide
index and middle finger inside wristband and pull inside out 3) trap
glove inside the second
How to put gloves on with wet hands?
✓✓ 1) put glove in water and scoop 2) put hand in filled up glove 3)
push hand down and tilt hand up so water spills out
What is RWI?
✓✓ recreational water illness
What causes RWI?
✓✓ germs or chemicals in water that are swallowed, contacted, or
inhaled
How do germs get into the water?
✓✓ Fecal material (solid or diarrhea)
, Updated 26 May 2025
What can fecal material contain?
✓✓ Cryptosporidium, giardia, shigella, norovirus, E. coli
Vomit may contain?
✓✓ Norovirus
What do you use to disinfect the area?
✓✓ Bleach and Water (1:9) (1 parts bleach and 9 parts water)
What causes diarrhea resulting in millions of germs
that spread quickly through water?
✓✓ Cryptosporidium
Distress vs Drowning
✓✓ Distress - bobbing motion, struggling to remain on surface, head
back, vertical, arms extended, minimal use of legs, showing signs of life
Drowning - starts when mouth and nose are covered w water, may or
may not be responsive, person cannot breathe, cannot keep head above
water, may look like a shadow or blur, usually facedown
What is Drowning?
SGE Portal review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
What are the 5 points of Risk Management?
✓✓ 1) prevention 2) surveillance 3) response and rescue 4) emergency
care 5) workplace expectations
What is the term to explain being paralyzed from the
waist down?
✓✓ Paraplegia
What is the term to explain being paralyzed from the
neck down?
✓✓ Quadriplegia
What can cause lifelong paralysis?
✓✓ Diving headfirst into shallow water
What is the term to explain passing out underwater
due to lack of oxygen?
✓✓ Sudden Underwater Blackout/ Hypoxic Blackout
The most common injury is what and what are
examples?
, Updated 26 May 2025
✓✓ Impact injuries - body hitting other riders or objects, slipping or
falling
The most dangerous hazard in an aquatic facility is?
✓✓ The behavior of people that use the facility
Risk of illness can come from?
✓✓ Bloodborne pathogens
What fluid carries a higher risk of infection than other
bodily fluids?
✓✓ Blood
Infections bloodborne diseases include?
✓✓ Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
How is bloodborne disease transmitted?
✓✓ Direct contact or entering your body through a wound etc.
What is PPE
✓✓ Personal Protective equipment- gloves, CPR mask, glasses (eye
protection), shoesHow
, Updated 26 May 2025
Anytime you encounter the bodily fluids of others you
should use what to prevent contact?
✓✓ PPE
How to remove contaminated gloves?
✓✓ 1) pinch glove at base and pull inside out 2) take free hand and slide
index and middle finger inside wristband and pull inside out 3) trap
glove inside the second
How to put gloves on with wet hands?
✓✓ 1) put glove in water and scoop 2) put hand in filled up glove 3)
push hand down and tilt hand up so water spills out
What is RWI?
✓✓ recreational water illness
What causes RWI?
✓✓ germs or chemicals in water that are swallowed, contacted, or
inhaled
How do germs get into the water?
✓✓ Fecal material (solid or diarrhea)
, Updated 26 May 2025
What can fecal material contain?
✓✓ Cryptosporidium, giardia, shigella, norovirus, E. coli
Vomit may contain?
✓✓ Norovirus
What do you use to disinfect the area?
✓✓ Bleach and Water (1:9) (1 parts bleach and 9 parts water)
What causes diarrhea resulting in millions of germs
that spread quickly through water?
✓✓ Cryptosporidium
Distress vs Drowning
✓✓ Distress - bobbing motion, struggling to remain on surface, head
back, vertical, arms extended, minimal use of legs, showing signs of life
Drowning - starts when mouth and nose are covered w water, may or
may not be responsive, person cannot breathe, cannot keep head above
water, may look like a shadow or blur, usually facedown
What is Drowning?