Comparative Study on the Security Personnel Training for High-risk Sports in America and China With swimming pool lifeguard training as an example
- DOI
- 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.27How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Lifeguard, training, swimming
- Abstract
In order to enhance the quality of security personnel training for high-risk sports, this paper, with the swimming pool lifeguard training as an example, has made a comparison between American and Chinese lifeguard training contents, the research conclusion of which indicates that: (1) Both America and China specify the lifeguard’s position in a swimming site for business operation by law, but with different regulation modes; (2) China adopts the authority unifying organization and appraisal upon the lifeguard training and the authority supervising its implementation, however, the lifeguard training in America is organized and implemented by non-government institutions while its reasonable operation is guaranteed by industry self-discipline as well as laws and regulations; (3) In lifeguard training, America pays more attention to the lifesaving details and has applied modern lifesaving equipments during training process with first-aid skill required to reach the rescue standard of Red Cross, however, China attaches more importance to the operability of examination practice and the test content is closely related to the training content.
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- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Loucheng Yu AU - Jin’ao Chen PY - 2014/05 DA - 2014/05 TI - Comparative Study on the Security Personnel Training for High-risk Sports in America and China With swimming pool lifeguard training as an example BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication PB - Atlantis Press SP - 105 EP - 110 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.27 DO - 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.27 ID - Yu2014/05 ER -