§ 92.073 LIFEGUARDS’ DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

   (A)   Major responsibility is to protect the life and well-being of each person using the facility and to prevent people from getting into situations that endanger themselves or others.

   (B)   The lifeguard is directly responsible to the swimming pool manager or, in his or her absence, the head lifeguard.

   (C)   The lifeguards’ safety duties are:

      (1)   To keep physically fit, and mentally alert, and ready to meet any emergency;

      (2)   To be familiar with, study, enforce and put to use, all the latest methods of safety procedures;

      (3)   To go into action when in doubt of a patron’s safety, and not to take a chance on anyone’s life or welfare by undue waiting. Prevent accidents before they happen;

      (4)   To remain in the lifeguard towers, or on stations assigned until relieved by regular trained lifeguard staff;

      (5)   To note or take action or call to the pool manager’s attention any acts or procedures that might endanger or create disharmony among the pool patrons or staff;

      (6)   To use the whistle sparingly, lest it becomes too common to attract attention;

      (7)   To check all pool facilities and patrol the complete bottom of the pool at the close of each shift for security reasons;

      (8)   Faulty equipment should be put out of use and action taken to correct or remove or replace said equipment;

      (9)   To know, verbatim, the pool danger areas; and

      (10)   Check to make certain all doors and gates to pool are locked when a lifeguard is not on duty guarding the pool.

   (D)   Additional related duties of the lifeguard are:

      (1)   All pool personnel, including the lifeguards, are responsible for the sanitation and maintenance of the facilities. The duties involve all areas of the pool and the pool building; and

      (2)   Tasks are as follows:

         (a)   Keeping debris from the pool surface and bottom, including drains in the pool bottom, scuppers and decks;

         (b)   Sweep all decks to remove excessive debris before washing;

         (c)   Scrub and disinfect the following areas: showers; restrooms; diving board; and stand and deck;

         (d)   Brush, vacuum and chlorinate the pool on a schedule set by the Pool Manager; and

         (e)   Other related duties as may be required and assigned by the Pool Manager.

(Prior Code, § 28-4-14)