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Some Steps to Take Following
a Major Pool Accident
By Sonia Myrick

A

20-year veteran diving coach teaches her students about diving from
a tower versus a springboard. She carefully explains the differences
in takeoff technique and emphasizes that a concrete tower will not
flex if you hit it. In fact, a head strike could be catastrophic, even
fatal. After sharing some examples of world-class divers who were badly injured
or killed from striking the tower, she has everyone sign a detailed waiver, explaining the potential for catastrophic injuries. During practice a month later, a
15-year-old boy whacks the back of his head on the tower while attempting to do
a reverse 2½ somersault and falls unconscious into the pool. As the ambulance
leaves to take the diver to the hospital, the lifeguard supervisor gathers the staff
to talk about what happened in an attempt to learn how the incident occurred.

At this point in this scenario, warning lights should be flashing and sirens sounding. It's natural to want to
discuss the event. Expect any staff
and witnesses involved to be extremely upset, maybe even hysterical, and
need to be consoled and reassured.
However, there are some steps that
should be taken immediately following the incident to help guard against
any future legal action. Instead of
gathering any involved staff or witnesses to discuss the incident, provide
each person with an incident report
form to record exactly what he or
she did and saw, and have them sign
it before any discussion takes place.
It's very important that each rescu-

Witnesses should
provide their phone
number and...before any
staff that was involved
goes home, an incident
debriefing should be
held.

er estimates the times involved in
recognition, response, removal, dispatch of EMS, their arrival and when
AR or CPR was started. Witnesses
should provide their phone number
and both them and staff should give
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