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Best Practices in Drowning & Near Drowning Prevention
I would like to hear from anyone involved in developing, maintaining,
or actively working on a drowning/near-drowning prevention team or from people who have personally experienced a program that they attribute to preventing a drowning or near drowning. Specifically would like to know what has proven to work in reducing the statistics. What has worked to change the mind-set that "This won't happen to me"? By proven I mean having data to back it up. And yes I am aware of the problems in data points on the subject of drowning & near drowning, so having said that, based on the best we have today, what is working? I include Drowning & Near-drowning because to me the goal would be to reduce both. I know there are agencies studying this, but have not seen any results published to date. |
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I wanted to also add that I have already researched www.infantswim.com,
www.safestart.cc www.redcross.org and many more programs in use, what I do not know is what results others are having, what adaptations they have found work, or even better yet what has NOT worked. All replies would be appreciated. I read some postings from last year, one in fact about supervision (it seemed the author could not understand how anyone could have lost track of the child long enough for them to drown) You need to understand that it CAN happen to even the most loving and careful people. I would be happy to expand on that if you like, the biggest awareness problem is getting people to understand it CAN happen to you, to anyone, other layers of defense need to be in place for the times that a child does escape supervision, because it only takes "A Moment in Time" Catherine wrote: I would like to hear from anyone involved in developing, maintaining, or actively working on a drowning/near-drowning prevention team or from people who have personally experienced a program that they attribute to preventing a drowning or near drowning. Specifically would like to know what has proven to work in reducing the statistics. What has worked to change the mind-set that "This won't happen to me"? By proven I mean having data to back it up. And yes I am aware of the problems in data points on the subject of drowning & near drowning, so having said that, based on the best we have today, what is working? I include Drowning & Near-drowning because to me the goal would be to reduce both. I know there are agencies studying this, but have not seen any results published to date. |
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Not my field of interest but....
Might be worth finding a copy of this paper or more work by same author?.... Ref: Moran K., Stanley T. & Coggan, C. (2004). "Parental perceptions of toddler water safety". Unpublished paper presented at the 7th Australian and 2nd Pacific Rim Injury Prevention Conference, 15-17 September, Mackay, Queensland. "Recent New Zealand research from Moran, Stanley and Cogan (2004) revealed that the majority of parents who enrol their toddler in lessons did so to increase water safety and water confidence of their child. However the majority of parents believed that the protective effects of learning to swim were the best way to prevent toddler drowning. This is a misconception that protective factors from toddler lessons alone prevent toddler drowning" The above was found in this Document... http://www.nsw.royallifesaving.com.a...res/3_3984.pdf |
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