Lifeguard Trainer
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Now Playing: I'm gonna be a Lifeguard Trainer
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Well, just 2 more days to go and I will be a certified American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor. I am so happy. Yet I am also a little concerned. I had to take the LGI class in another Red Cross Chapter because my chapter doesn't have anyone who can teach me so I can teach Lifeguarding. So, over there, they have rules set out and speak about certain rules and regulations as if they are obvious. Where I work, certain rules and regulations are not set up.

Like this thing called an Emergency Action Plan (EAP). Neither of the pools I work at had EAPs until last year, when I wrote one up for one of my pools. The equipment we have is horrible, the rules are not written down anywhere for reference, and no one knows what to do in the case of an emergency. Its horrible.

So now that I know more about safety and emergency preparedness, I feel an obligation to make sure that the pools I work at get their act together. If they refuse to get stuff working, I will have to quit. If I am working there and something happens, and we get sued, I could be sued because I knew about the problems but chose to work there even though the problems exist. But I don't want to quit.

So you see my dilemma.

And that is the problem of the day... for Big that is. See you all next time when we discuss more things that don't matter to you, but are my life.

Big, out.