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Incidents can happen any time at public swimming pools, but are your staff ready to anticipate what can go wrong and to prevent it before someone gets hurt? A recent article in the Herald Sun newspaper highlights how a lifeguards actions / instructions may have resulted in injury to a customer. The lifeguard allegedly instructed a customer to wait at the bottom of the slide to collect his young son. The customer complied, but it appears the lifeguard did nothing to stop another person coming down the slide before the father and son had cleared the area. The resultant collision alledgedly caused serious injury to the father.
(Article from Herald Sun 19th Dec 2011 - Father sues for Slide Kick )
Courld this happen at your pool? Do your staff simply state the rules to the customers without thinking through the consequences of what they are instructing??
Updated - 20/12/2011