Water Rescue Awareness and Guidelines

Water rescue awareness helps everyone to improve the knowledge and skills required to prevent water hazards and makes them respond quick during water emergencies.

For successful water rescue operations, rescue provider must follow some specific skills and strategies that are necessary when working in or around water. 

Aquatic experiences can be safer and enjoyable when everyone is careful to follow safety guidelines. Whether rescue provider is unknown to such skills, but he/she must need to follow some basic guidelines.

Safety and Rescue Guidelines to Operate near and in Water:

• Staying safe and trying for no accident—it takes skills, knowledge and forethought.
• The best thing anyone can do to stay safe in, on and around the water is to learn to swim well.
• At a minimum, everyone should establish and follow the general safety rules whenever they are in, on or around any body of water.
• Swim only in the areas that are being supervised by a lifeguard. Never try to swim alone.
• Read and obey all safety rules and posted signs guided previously by instructor.
• Swim only in designated areas.

• Designate a responsible individual as the person to watch over the children whenever they are in, on or around any body of water, even if a lifeguard is present.
• Take extra precautions in case of rescuing young children or inexperienced swimmers.
• Set specified swimming rules for each individual in a family or a group based on their swimming ability (for example, inexperienced swimmers should stay in water less than chest deep).
• Make sure all swimmers are aware of the particular water environment and any potential hazards, such as deep and shallow areas, currents, obstructions and the locations of entry and exit points.
• Identify potential water hazards within the community and make certain that children stay away from them.
• Get know about all previous issues and hazards history of that water body and quickly learn to prevent, recognize and respond for all emergencies.
• Use a feet first entry when entering the water first time. Enter headfirst only when the area is clearly marked for diving and has no obstructions.
• Take a boating safety training before operating any watercraft.
• Be especially cautious while operating in, on or around the moving water, cold water and ice covered water.
• Pay attention to local weather conditions and forecasts, previously.
• Be prepared! Aquatic emergencies happens suddenly.
• If possible, keep a telephone or mobile phone nearby.

  
  

People Who must Aware of Water Rescue Guidelines

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  Public safety personnel, such as police officers, firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, who may have maximum chances to be called onto handle emergencies in, on or around the water.
• Parents or other individuals who care for the specific victim.
• Camp personnel, site guides and trip leaders.
• Clubs and organizations engaging in water activities, such as Girl Scouts of the USA, Boy Scouts of America and Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America.
• Daycare workers.
• Water fitness instructors, aquatic therapists, aquatic rehabilitation specialists and anyone else involved in water activities for recreation and health.
• Teachers for a emergency call out.
• Individuals who work on or around the water, classroom area should also be equipped with the necessary teaching aids and materials, such as newsprint and markers or chalkboard and chalk.

An emergency can happen to anyone in, on or around the water at any time. Must visit Mission Safety Services to grab the detailed information about water rescue, technical equipment, delivery personnel and rescue training classes available in Alberta and the areas near around.

Lead & Lipstick – Know the whole story

Lead has been on the public’s figurative lips for dangerous heavy metal exposure for literally thousands of years. Hippocrates documented his belief that is was killing slaves in ancient Greece, yet it wasn’t until the late 1970s that we finally legislated that it could no longer be used in paints and the media outcry began at the commonality of its use in consumer products. 

 One that earns a role on our literal lips; lipstick! Lead, which is used to intensify red colors, has been a staple in the composition of makeup and has received a good deal of attention from the fear mongering campaign.

Lead itself interferes with multiple biological systems from circulatory to gastrointestinal, and from nervous to reproductive. Early symptoms include abdominal pain, confusion, anemia, irritability and can lead to developmental disorders (in children), seizures, coma and eventually death.

But OMG, how cute is that color? 

Regulations state that color additives for cosmetics are allowed to contain 20 µg lead/g. this is then diluted further into the finally product, but testing discovered an average of .36-.39 µg. These numbers are meaningless without the understanding of what levels of lead does, but most people hear lead and jump to the idea that these are deadly levels. NIOSH estimates that there are 3 million workers exposed to these dangers every day in industry in America alone. This number does not include children exposed to lead based products at home or the commonality of lead levels in soil and water supplies. Workers are legally allowed to be exposed to 3.84 ug/kg a day. Using that number as a base, it is not at all frightening that someone could ingest about 0.0000003 ug/kg a day in their lipstick or even 0.08 ug/kg of lead in 8 cups of tap water.

In English this means:

Girl with the bright red lips = Will be fine. 

Guy in the hard hat in Canadian work site = danger-ish 

Guy without the safety precautions of Canada (let’s call it ‘Shina’) = Probably going to die

We like to overemphasis the things that can catch the eye, more than the really threats. WE are lucky in Canada that regulation do exist to keep us from extreme danger, but knowing the risks on work sites and in day to day life involve evaluation and understanding. Complacency is never the answer. There are groups dedicated to exposing the realities of chemicals and metals in consumer goods and making sure the consumer is aware of them too. We can make all these products without the possible risk of poisoning.