World Water Safety Program

  

 
     
 

Day 1 - Thursday, 27 September 2007

 
1 Joost Bierens: World Congress on Drowning (WCD) 2002: Lessons learnt - Research and developments since.  
2 B. Chris Brewster: Overview of ILS actions since WCD 2002  
3 Douglas B (Pete) Peterson: Pulling on the same oars together—we can make a difference  
4 Aminur Rahman: The Bangladesh Experience: A Developing Country’s Perspective on  
5 Peter George (Australia): Total Life Saving Service Plan  
6 Jonathon Webber and Billy Doyle (New Zealand): SENTINEL- A new systematic approach to the early recognition and classification of in-water behavior consistent with ‘threat to life’ following concerning results of lifeguard efficacy research  
7 David Szpilman (Brazil): 12 Years of Brazilian Lifesaving Society (SOBRASA) – Did we make any difference?  
8 Stathis Avramidis (Greece): Risk Taking Behaviour as a Cause of Drowning after Engagement in Swimming & Non-Aquatic Activities  
9 Larry Patterson (Canada): Factors affecting lifeguard recognition of the submerged victim. Implications for lifeguard training, lifeguarding systems and aquatic facility design  
10 Greg McLennan (Australia): Utilising the Sport of Lifesaving to establish a “community base” within lifesaving organisations – the essentials, a model, the process and the benefits  
11 Brett Sullivan (New Zealand): Case Study: ‘Piha Rescue’ – Research opportunities associated with four years of continuous filming at NZ’s busiest beach for a hugely successful and high rating reality TV show. What can be achieved through lifeguarding and  
12 Michael Shane (Canada): Are they watching…the SEE system: Lifeguard-scanning, inhibitors and enhancement variables and a system that allows supervisory staff quantifiably evaluate a lifeguard’s supervision performance  
13 Michael Linnan (TASC): SwimSafe-A community-based water safety and swim-learning program suitable for developing countries  
14 Peter Davis (USA): Public education collaboration: USLA and NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) and the National Weather Service, the Sea Grant Foundation  
15 Bernadette Matthews (Australia): Swimming Pool Injury Data: Improvements to Lifeguard Training  
16 Justin Scarr (Australia): The role of lifesaving in community development, experiences from indigenous Australia  
17 Erik Bech (Denmark): RIP Currents - A Public Awareness Negligence  
18 Billy Doyle (New Zealand): Is the efficay of detecting a simulated drowning patient altered if the person conducting the surveillance is a non-swimmer?  
19 Jonathon Webber (New Zealand): Establishing Coastal Lifeguard Services in Pakistan  
20 Bernadette Matthews (Australia): Impacts of major water safety campaigns: Play it Safe by the Water 1997 to 2007  
21 Steve Beerman (ILS): ILS Position Statement: Seizure Disorders in Lifesaving and Lifeguarding  
22 Klaus Wilkens (Germany): Financial funds as fundamental basis to develop lifesaving structures  
23 Richard Ming Kirk Tan (Singapore): Public water safety education through letters to the newspapers  
24 David Szpilman (Brazil): How Lifeguards would know the severity, treatment and outcome of drowning on the accident site  
25 Hans van der Pols (Netherlands): Impact of 11 Recommendations of WCD 2002  
26 Allart Venema (Netherlands): The potential use of an award (honours–medals or certificates) scheme for drowning rescues to study prevention, rescue and resuscitation of drowning cases  
27 Francesco (Frank) Pia (USA): What Can Science Teach us about Lifesaving and Drowning Prevention?  
28 Julie Gilchrist: Estimating the Burden - Nonfatal and Fatal Drowning in Recreational Water Sites - US 2001-2002  
     
 

Day 2 - Friday, 28 September 2007

  
29 Peter Agnew (ILS): ILS World Drowning Report  
30 Kidist K. Bartolomeos (World Health Organisation): Global burden of drowning  
31 Seyed Mostafa Agha Mirsalim (Iran): Rescuing Plan for the Caspian Sea Blind Areas  
32 Diego Abalos Brandon (Argentina): Manoeuvres and Rescue Skills Program and Rescue with paddleboards and/or Rescue Boards  
33 Joanne Vincenten (European Child Safety Alliance): Reporting of Water Safety Policy Measures in 17 European Countries to Advance Water Safety and Reduce Childhood Drowning  
34 Steve Beerman (Canada): Evidence based process - how to do this in lifesaving  
35 Cliff Nelson (United Kingdom): Principles of Beach Risk Assessment: A UK perspective  
36 Luiz Morizot-Leite (USA): Risk Management Analysis; when, where and how Ocean Rescue Lifeguards are suffering occupational injuries  
37 John Pearn (Australia): Safety Legislation: A pillar of Drowning Prevention  
38 Michael Linnan (TASC): The burden of drowning in Asia: prevalance and risk factors in children  
39 Peter Dawes (United Kingdom): Developing a risk assessment model for practical application in the UK  
40 John McVan (USA): Normalizing the Abnormal: The Efficacy of Stress Related Aquatic Instruction and its Correlation to Drowning Prevention in Theatre Specific Water  
41 Deborah C. Girasek (USA): Are Pregnant Pool Owners Receptive to Isolation Fencing Installation?  
42 Linda Quan and Elizabeth Bennett (USA): Drowning risk and prevention in minority communities  
43 Michael Vlasto and Adam Wooler (United Kingdom -RNLI): An integrated approach to Beach Lifeguarding and Lifeboating  
44 Peter Wernicki (USA): A preliminary report of the US Lifeguard Standards Coalition - from the American Red Cross, the US Lifesaving Association, and YMCA of the USA  
45 Steve Beerman (Canada): Evidence based process - how to do this in lifesaving  
46 Michael Linnan (TASC): Drowning in the developing world: Differences from drowning in rich countries and prevention implications  
47 Craig Roberts (Australia): Using camera technology to prevent drownings  
48 Jørn Dam (Denmark): Didactical reflections considering the development of lifesaving competence in physical education students  
49 Teresa Stanley (New Zealand): Do big people really know best about water safety? An examination of toddler water safety at swim lessons with particular reference to the perceptions of parents and instructors  
50 Dhaya Sewduth (South Africa): The data related to drowning problem in South Africa and the implication of this  
51 Daniel Hartmann (Israel): Onshore Storminess Factor (ONSF): A New Tool for Regional Beach Hazard Rating (RBHR) and Beach Safety Management (BSM)  
52 Perry Smith (Canada) and Janet Castro (United Kingdom): Simulated Emergency Response Training Program  
53 John Pearn (Australia): Bathtub Drowning Deaths. New Twists on an old problem  
54 John Connolly (Ireland): Suicide by Drowning: Exclusion of such deaths from official drowning statistics  
55 Peter Agnew (Australia): Australian Public Coastal Safety Guidelines  
56 Detlev Mohr (Germany): Main Skills for Lifesaving and How to Train these Skills: Bettering the Quality of Lifesaving Services  
57 Deborah C. Girasek (USA): Are Pregnant Pool Owners Trained in Infant/Child Cardiopulmonary Resucitation?  
58 Ludger Shulte-Hulsmann (Germany): Drowning statistics on the basis of press cuttings  
59 Steve Wills (United Kingdom): The research, development and implementation of the UK national guidelines and specifications for coastal public rescue equipment  
60 Kelly Fischbein (USA): Skill Retention in Lifesaving: A Review of Literature and a Look to the Future  
61 Robert Stallman (Norway): The Teaching of Swimming Based on a Model of the Causes of Drowning  
62 Peter Barss (United Arab Emirates): A Practical Approach to Identifying and Counting Cold-water Immersion Deaths, and Assessing Associated Activities and Risk Factors  
63 Jim Howe and Ralph Goto (USA): State of Hawaii Beach Hazard Information Website oceansafety.soest.hawaii.edu  
64 Jana Novotna (Czech Republic): Comparative Analysis of Educational Programmes (A Proposal of Innovation of Water Safety Educational Programme of Czech Red Cross in relation to the Standards of International Lifesaving Federation)  
65 Barbara Byers (Canada): Swim to Survive Dhaya Sewduth (South Africa): The impact of the absence of legislation governing water safety and drowning prevention  
66 Julie Evans (Australia): Dangerous waves - long period waves: Surf Alerts  
67 Norman Farmer (Australia): International Water Safety and Lifesaving Education by ILS  
68 Dirk Bissinger (Germany): Electronically devices and teaching software as instruments of modern education in lifesaving  
69 Michael Shane (Canada): Aquatic Facilities - Total Life Saving Service Plan  
70 Anthony Handley (United Kingdom): Do automated external defibrillators have a place in lifeguarding / lifesaving?  
71 Lorraine Wilson-Saliba (Canada): Swim for Life - A new, innovative approach to swim program design and drowning prevention  
72 Guy Thomas (DAN Europe): Factors associated with open-circuit recretaional diving fatalities  
73 Joost Bierens (Netherlands): The same result for less money? - Is training in the use of the automated external defibrillator (AED) is equally effective with poster self training as with instructor based training  
74 Matt Claridge (New Zealand): Swim For Life – A Mass Media Campaign Promoting Learn to Swim  
75 Peter Chennell (UK): How safe is recreational boating in the UK?  
76 Anthony Handley (United Kingdom): Self instruction in basic life support – is this the answer to the problem of poor training?  
77 Klaus Wilkens (Germany): Campaign against the drowning of children  
78 Malcolm Poole and Stan Konstantaras (Australia): Rock Fishers’ Practices and Perception of Rock Fishing Water Safety  
79 Joost Bierens (Netherlands): Are there any different in retention of BLS and AED skills between younger (15-22 years) and older (>35 years) lifeguards?  
80 Peter Barss (United Arab Emirates): Knowledge of swimming pool safety among vendors and home pool owners and provision of safety devices and information by vendors in United Arab Emirates  
81 Kevin Moran (New Zealand): Rock fishers’ practices and perception of rock fishing water safety  
82 Ricardo dos Santos Nunes (Brazil): THE DOLPHIN PROJECT – Since 1964, the largest drowning prevention project in Brazil – 150.000 children trained  
     
 

Day 3 - Saturday, 29 September 2007

  
83 David Szpilman (Brazil): International Life Saving Federation ILS: How and what were the impacts on Brazil Lifesaving (SOBRASA)  
84 Fernando Martinho (Portugal): “CPLP” – a new space for coo- peration within ILS: AsNaSA Portugal’s proposal of an Action Plan for Teaching and Training in Water Safety Quality in the Portuguese Speaking Countries  
85 Daniel Hartmann (Israel): Water Safety Management – Morphodynamic and Human Parameters from the Israeli Mediterranean Coast – Parame- trization for a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)  
86 Angela Lawson (New Zealand - ILS): The Dr Ian Mackie Fellowship - Facilitating Youth Involvement in Lifesaving  
87 Ricardo Nunes (Portugal): Professional Water Life Saver Course – Level II: a course certified by official Portuguese and European Union Standards  
88 Joost Bierens (Netherlands): Moderate sea states do not influence the application of an automated external defibrillator (AED) in rigid inflatable rescue boats  
89 Chris Giles (Australia): Developing our youth - securing our future  
90 Sandra Nascimento (Portugal): Child and adolescent drowning in Portugal  
91 Bo Løfgren (Denmark): How to choose an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the aquatic environment – review of selection considerations  
92 Katrin (joe) Ripcke (Germany): Youth work/welfare as a task of lifesaving organisations  
93 Arturo Abraldes (Spain): Evaluation of risk factors on beaches  
94 Leornado Manino (Argentina): Spinal Cord Immobilization in Aquatic Environment        in spanish  
95 David Szpilman (Brazil): Junior and volunteer lifeguard – A new concept to help the professional on duty  
96 Osni Pinto Guaiano (Brazil): Global Heating and Mortality for Drowning: How a project for children and adoloescent in fundamental and medium teaching in the SOROCABA CITY can contribute to preserving the environment and prevent drowning in Brazil  
97 Anthony Handley (UK): Resuscitation Guidelines 2005 – what’s new and why? John Fitzgerald (Australia): Leadership development within a water safety organisation  
98 John Fitzgerald (Australia): Leadership development within a water safety organisation  
99 Peter George (Australia): Is it possible to achieve an international standard for beach safety flags?  
100 Armindo Carvalho (Portugal): Maritime Safety and Risks Prevention in the European Atlantic Coast: Challenges for a Transnational Cooperation Framework  
101 David Szpilman (Brazil): In-water resuscitiation: What are the highlights and pitfalls?  
102 Steve Wills (United Kingdom): The development and implementation of two national beach safety signage standards (UK & Australia) and how they are leading to the creation of an international beach signage standard  
103 Jorge Dias (Cabo Verde): AsNaSA Cabo Verde – National Water Safety Association: a new life saving organization in ILS Network and the Professional Training and Employment System of Cabo Verde  
104 Jonathon L. Epstein (USA): Evidence Based First Aid Guidelines-Report of the US National First Aid Science Advisory Board  
105 Dias Martins (Portugal): ISN - Instituto de Socorros a Naufragos: Past, Present and Future  
106 Tara Reilly (United Kingdom): Occupational fitness standards for beach lifeguards  
107 Justin Scarr (Australia): Water Safety for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities:“Swim for Life” Muslim Aquatic Safety and Recreation Program  
108 Nuno Pinto (Portugal) Professional aquatic security and rescue technician course  
109 Carl Martinez (USA): Fitness Standards for Lifeguards: The Surf Lifeguard Pre-Employment Test  
110 Mark Haimona (New Zealand): Drownbase - Identify atrisk factors for Maori Drowning in New Zealand  
111 Osni Pinto Guaiano (Brazil): Professional and Education Updating: Is it possible to increase the measures of prevention and to reduce the mortality for drowning in the State of SÃO PAULO?  
112 Arthur Clarke (USA): Eye health and vision standards for lifeguards  
113 John Fitzgerald and Chris Giles (Australia): Embracing cultural diversity within Surf Life Saving Australia  
114 José Festas (Portugal): “Pro-More Security for Sea Men” Association - a pilot project providing recycling training for improving sea fishermen security (2007-2013)  
115 Michael Tipton (United Kingdom RNLI): Visual acuity standards for Beach Lifeguards  
116 Mário Costa (Portugal): Education and training on the Portuguese legislation for Water Safety Quality Standards: Notes to improve Law 44/2004, in conformity with the “Portaria 1311/2006”  
117 Daniel Hartmann (Israel): Water Safety Management - Ergonomic approach to study lifeguards Effectiveness and Vigilance  
118 Paul Hayden (United Kingdom): Management of Major Flood Events - FRS Contribution to the Emergency Phase  
119 Bob Clark (Canada): Drowning incident analysis  
120 Alexadre Tadeia (Portugal): Operational Strategy of Portuguese Lifeguards Associations in order to prevent drowning  
121 Romeu Bruno (Brazil): Jet ski rescue  
122 Bob Albers and Sergeant Darrell (USA): The importance of a lifeguard response to water related natural disasters  
123 Fernando Martinho (Portugal): AsNaSA - First Portuguese Life Saving Association - 30 years in lifesaving voluntary work - education and tranning  
124 John Connolly (Ireland): Rescues by Irish Police Officers  
125 Zaid Chelvaraz (Malaysia): Role of lifesavers in water related natural disasters  
126 Conference Wrap Up and Plenary Address - Steve Beerman (ILS and WWS 2007 Scientific Committee): Summary of Workshop Recommendations  
     
 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  
127 Trauma In Brazil – 126,000 deaths in 2003 - Do we know enough to prevent? - David Szpilman, Brazil  
128 Drowning In Brazil – 179,000 deaths in 25 Years - Are we stepping down? - David Szpilman, Brazil  
129 Basic water life support (BWLS) – Reevaluation after 232 courses. - David Szpilman, Brazil  
130 Aeromedical rescue helicopter – How it works on Drowning? - David Szpilman, Brazil  
131 Certifications qualify water safety program – Do the Benefits overcome Costs? - David Szpilman, Brazil  
132 Surfer-Save – A way to decrease drowning by teaching lifesaving to surfers - David Szpilman, Brazil  
133 Do we prepare lifeguards to face death or just to be heroes? - David Szpilman, Brazil  
134 A tale of two Park Agencies: The role of local and regional government agencies in drowning prevention.- Linda Quan & Elizabeth Bennett, USA  
135 Understanding older persons water safety needs – research and development. - Justin Scarr for Richard Franklin, Australia  
136 Surf Education - Clubs and Schools. - John Fitzgerald, Australia
137 Kia Maanu, Kia Ora – Stay Afloat, Stay Alive - A Water Safety Strategy for Māori in Aotearoa. - Mark Haimona, New Zealand  
138 Fitness Requirements for Beach Lifeguards to operate Rescue Watercraft and Inshore Rescue Boats. - Tara Reilly, United Kingdom  
139 “Bridging the Gap” – 12,000 km of coastline coverage. - Chris Peck, Australia  
140 The role of Physical Education Teachers in the prevention and reduction of accidents and deaths by drowning. - Osni Pinto Guaiano, Brazil  
141 Prevention of Drowning: Are we, professional lifeguards, ready to educate the population or are we prepared exclusively to perform rescues? - Osni Pinto Guaiano, Brazil  
142 Maximise rescuer safety and effectiveness through pre-rescue communication. - Brendan Donohoe, Ireland
143 Water Safety Education Methods and Statistics of the Ocean City, Marlyand Beach Patrol. - Mark W. Muller, USA
144 A National Lifesaving Plan to prevent drowning and injury in New Zealand, 2005-2010: Rolling out the strategy. - Brett Sullivan, New Zealand (FSP)  
145 The Integrated Aquatic Programme (IAP): A collaborative and sector wide approach to developing a ‘Roadmap’ for water safety education in NZ - Brett Sullivan, New Zealand (FSP)  
146 The prototype of situational dimensions in water lifesaving. - Tomasz Zalewski, Poland  
147 How does the educational standards change in the case of pupils at grammar-schools after a preventive campaign “A Blue Patrol”? - Tomasz Zalewski, Poland  
148 A proposed framework for developing a plan for research in life saving and water safety. - Robert Stallman, Norway  
149 Swim for Life - A new, innovative approach to swim program design and drowning prevention. - Lorraine Wilson-Saliba, Canada  
150 Angel Ring - Rock Fishing Safety. - Stan Konstantaras, Australia
151 Safety in Public Aquatic Centres: Lifeguards are not Babysitters! - Justin Scarr for Caitlin Chellew, Australia  
152 Cartoon Drowning Prevention Video – A way to reach children in 8 minutes. - TRABALHO PREMIADO - Jorge Cerqueira & David Szpilman, Brazil  
153 Didactical reflections considering the development of lifesaving competence in physical education students. - Jørn Dam, Denmark  
154 Predicting lifeguard’s ability to succeed in real lifesaving situations. - Michael Iwersen, Denmark  
155 IT strategy – a didactic challenge in the learning process of lifesaving skills.- Lillan Madsen, Denmark  
156 Collection of captured sharks off Recife - Brazil at local Lifeguard Group.- André de Souza Ferraz Alves, Brazil  
157 The Story of the Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB). - Edward Wake-Walker and Warren Mitchell, UK  
158 Water Safety Campaign. - Sandra Nascimento, Portugal