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Acts - Responsibilities
- Health and Safety at Work Act
- Employer must comply
- Follow training given
- Report any risks and hazards
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Regulations - Responsibilities
- Complete Risk Assessments
- Health and Safety Training
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PPE responsibilites
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Equipment assessed
- Maintained and stored properly
- Instructions provided
- used safely
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Signs
- Red - Prohibition Signs
- Yellow - Warning sign
- Blue - Mandatory sign
- Green - Emergency escape/first aid
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PSOP
- Pool Safety Operating Procedures - consists of...
- NOP - outlines safe day to day running of the building
- EAP - what to do in emergencies
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NOP includes
- Details of pool
- Potential Risks
- Dealing with the Public
- Lifeguard duties/responsibilities
- Work Instructions
- First Aid Supplies and Training
- Alarm Systems
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EAP includes
- Overcrowding
- disorderly behaviour
- Lack of water clarity
- Fire
- Bomb
- Lighting etc
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Risk Assessment purpose
- to identify all the hazards that have the potential to cause harm
- identify different measures to reduce the likelihood of an accident happening
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Hazard/Risk
- Hazard - something with the potential to cause harm
- Risk - how likely it is that the harm will be caused
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Risk Assessment categories
- Premises and Utilities - design, features
- Task and Activities - cleaning, inflatables
- People - pool users, age, numbers, behaviour
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NOP - Systems of Work
Work rotation, shift patterns, poolside rotations
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NOP - Operational systems
- Controlling access to the pool, safe use of equipment
- e.g. safe use of pool covers
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Hazard of Moveable Floors and Controls
- Unfamiliar depths
- Diving/Jumping into shallow water
- Ensure swimmers out of the water when floor depths changed
- Depth singage changed
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Hazard - Booms
- Trapped under boom
- Blind spots
- Injury cause of unstable platform
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Gala Set up Hazards
Starting blocks, lane ropes, lane flags
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NOP - Detailed Work Instructions
- Pool cleaning procedures
- Safe setting up of equipment
- Diving procedures
- Setting up got galas
- Pool water treatment
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Activity Hazard List
- Self appointed teacher
- Hyperventilating then swimming under water
- Play fighting
- Running
- Gymnastics
- Bombing
- Diving
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Sub Aqua/Canoeing/Lesson sessions
- Check sessions doesn't start until instructor present
- Ensure public have left
- Canoe - suitable protection worn
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Critical/Non-critical Intervention
- Critical - persons life is in danger
- Non - preventing an accident waiting to happen
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