Safety Management Institute 2009

If its foreseeable, it’s preventable! As the Lifeguarding experts in Canada for the past 45 years, the Lifesaving Society provides expertise and services beyond lifeguard training programs. Coming this November, the Lifesaving Society will be piloting and launching new safety management programs for professionals in aquatic programming, facility management, swimming pool operations and recreation. These programs won’t
leave you puzzled.

http://www.aqua-edu.com/docs/AlbertaLifesavingSociety-SMI2009Promo.pdf

Registration & Location details are available online. www.lifesaving.org

safety management institute 2009

Know how to manage the risks and operate safe facilities. The Lifesaving Society Safety Management Institute 2009, in Edmonton, AB is available to members, affiliates and the public. The benefits of recognizing and assessing the risks in recreation and aquatic environments is essential for public safety in all communities. Owners, operators and designated safety personnel need to have the education and capacity to ensure they have an appropriate safety and supervision plan in place.

aquatic management training. For those who want the skills and knowledge to enable them to operate aquatic facilities to a standard established by provincial legislation and the Lifesaving Society. Prerequisite: none

aquatic safety inspector. For those who want the knowledge and practical experience to inspect aquatic facilities to a standard established by provincial legislation and the Lifesaving Society. Prerequisite: none

aquatic safety auditor. For those who want the knowledge and practical experience that
will enable them to conduct safety audits of aquatic operations within a community, through a process established by the Lifesaving Society. Prerequisite: Aquatic Safety Inspector

SEE auditor. For those who want the knowledge and practical experience that will
enable them to conduct Supervision evaluation & Enhancement (SEE) system audits of lifeguard and instructing operations at supervised swimming pools and waterfronts, through a process established by the Lifesaving Society. Prerequisite: NLS Instructor/Examiner

Wave Machine

Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of strong wave action on a swimmer
Equipment: Flutter boards

Description

1. Have students stand side by side in shallow water facing the edge (about 1 m away).
2. Each student holds a flutter board lengthwise and pushes the water away from them (making a wave towards the edge).
3. Each student in turn (with or without a flutter board) swims down the column of waves.
4. Discuss with students the dangers of waves.

Weeds

Purpose: Learn about weeds as a water hazard

Equipment: 6-12 hockey pucks or rocks; 6-12 green plastic garbage bags, cut to strips, with bottom seam intact

Description:

1. Put pucks in the bottom of the garbage bags and let them sink into the shallow end to simulate weeds growing out of the bottom.
2. Have students swim through the weed garden.
3. Have students swim through the weeds with a lot of thrashing and then very smoothly and slowly.

Discuss the expereince

Boating Equipment Relay

 

Purpose:             Identifying necessary boating equipment required by law

 

Equipment:        Boating equipment, other pieces of aquatic equipment

 

Description:

1.       Organize students into 2 or 3 teams.

2.       Opposite each team, 15 m away place a pile of equipment. Each pile must contain some required boating equipment.

3.       Students swim to the equipment, pick up a piece of equipment required by law for boating, and swim back with it on their stomach

4.       The relay concludes when one team brings back all the required boating equipment.

Todd Reade