When I reflect on my past summer‚ I realize that embracing the chance to become a lifeguard meant refusing to be complacent and challenging myself to try something new. My overall experience this summer was eye-opening. I felt empowered by how I could use my skills to help to other people and eventually overcome my fear of failure. Although I succeeded in becoming a lifeguard‚ I realized I had to work hard and In addition‚ maintaining a job required me to make more mature decisions
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out‚ I immediately sunk to the bottom. I tried to kick back up and just as my legs gave in‚ a lifeguard climbed in and essentially saved my life. He was my hero and I was very grateful‚ but something was bothering me. I realized later that it was the fact that I wasn’t able to help myself. It was that moment when I decided to become a lifeguard to save myself and many others. I already knew being a lifeguard required a load of responsibility. I was only
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Chabot Swim Club Lifeguard Responsibilities And Expectations 2008 LIFEGUARDS Welcome to the Chabot Swim Club Lifeguard Staff. Splat! There’s some zinc/oxide on your nose. Now you are official. Below are a few of the rules and guidelines you will need to follow and enforce. Please use good judgment when enforcing pool rules and if there is ever a question‚ contact a board member. Phone numbers of the board members are posted in the lifeguard room. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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“How to Survive Beach Rip Currents” by UNSWTV‚ it shows that lifeguards need to be best prepared for dire situations‚ such as rip currents. “Life Saver” By John DiConsiglio is about a teenager‚ that sees two little kids getting taken by rip currents‚ and heroically goes into the ocean to save them. According to “Life Saver”‚ “It’s useless to fight it and swim headlong to shore.” This shows that he knows what he is doing. Lifeguards need to know not to fight the current‚ but rather go along with
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Beware at Juhu beach when you go for visarjans With the final day of Ganpati visarjans set to take place‚ the Juhu lifeguards Association has unearthed a big racket that is rampant at the Juhu beach behind JW Marriot‚ Hotel Tulip Star‚ etc. Subroto Mukherjee‚ a lifeguard said‚ “Robberies at the beach are always more during Ganpati time. But this time the operation of the thieves is unique.” At various points of Juhu Chowpatty‚ groups of young boys rob men who hang around after completing
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work and school. One place that I saw the Peter Principle put to work was at my own summer job working as a lifeguard at an outdoor pool. There‚ you could start out as a lifeguard‚ move up to head guard and then to supervisor. But‚ some people were just not fit for the higher roles. One way that one became incompetent to become a supervisor was that they could not take charge. This lifeguard could be great at doing their job‚ scanned the water often‚ made sure the rules were followed and knew all
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Business Studies Report Description 1.1 - The following report is selected to discover and explain the motivational theory know as Theory Z. Theory Z is a motivation theory which was discovered and created by Dr. William Ouchi and is known as the so-called ‘Japanese Management’ style. Dr. William Ouchi’s theory Z was based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming ’s famous "14 points". Deming was an American scholar whose management and motivation theories were rejected in the United States‚ he then went on to
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came to choosing one simple idea I liked. The problem I discussed with Nitai was public swimming pools‚ and the fact that sometimes it’s “easy” for the lifeguard to miss the signs of a drowning person‚ especially if the person suddenly sinks and goes under water without showing any previous signs. Especially when the pool is crowded‚ the lifeguard simply can’t see everyone at every single moment. Statistics shows that Each Year‚ Over 200 People Drown In Lifeguarded Swimming Pools‚ We watched a few
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(defendant) in a wrongful death suit. Stephan Andres drowned in a spa pool in a locker room at the YMCA facility. The parents believed that the YMCA was negligent by not having lifeguards in the spa pool area of the locker room where Stephen Andres was found dead. The YMCA is required by the Health & Saf. Code‚ § 116045 to have lifeguards for any public pool‚ however it is not required for the seven-foot‚ ten-inch by seven-foot‚ four-inch spa pool that was three feet‚ six inches
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become captivated by fear in shocking situations. This is exemplified in his poem as a flight attendant falls from a plane to her death. Again‚ the concern for humans and their instincts is understood in The Lifeguard‚ where the instinct of emotional burdens of a tragedy takes over the lifeguard. There is a reoccurring concern and theme in all three of these
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