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Australian Beach Safety and the Politics of Shark Attacks

Coastal Management, 2012
C. Neff
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Augmented Reality to Improve Public Awareness and Safety at The Beach

Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 2021
Rip currents pose a threat to the safety of bathers at most beaches around the world. The proposed research includes the specification of a platform to empower the user to become active beach-safety agents.
Rodrigo Alarcão, G. Pestana
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The Impact of Coastal Erosion and Shoreline Changes on Beach Leisure Activities: Evaluating the Importance of Maritime Police in Maintaining Public Safety

Journal of Coastal Research
Moon, J., 2023. The impact of coastal erosion and shoreline changes on beach leisure activities: Evaluating the importance of maritime police in maintaining public safety.
Junseob Moon
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Perceptions of beach safety: A comparison of beach users and managers

Coastal Management, 1989
Abstract Today's beach manager must balance legal obligations to protect users from injuries with recreation users’ expectations for reasonably safe and enjoyable recreation opportunities. Thus beach managers must have a thorough understanding of their legal obligations as well as the expectations of their recreation users if they are to formulate risk‐
James E. Fletcher, Ronald A. Kaiser, Robert J. Steele   +2 more
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Safety and security concerns at the beach: Views of migrant visitors in Ghana

, 2020
Tourism-migration, safety and security experience are constructs that have drawn the attention of researchers. The literature has acknowledged the importance of safety and security as the foundations for building wealthy tourism.
A. Preko
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A probabilistic model of bathing beach safety

Science of The Total Environment, 1975
An improved mathematical model for bathing beach safety is proposed. It is derived by joining the probability of infection from a given dose (Poisson distribution and the probability of acquiring such a dose (lognormal distribution). Even in the absence of better clinical and epidemiological data, the model permits an assessment of relative risk from ...
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The Long Beach public safety information subsystem

Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '72 (Spring), 1971
Not many years ago, officials in a city with a five year capital improvement plan, a "master" plan, and a computer that handled payroll calculations and utility billing were termed relatively progressive. This was considered a dynamic approach to the use of modern management techniques and computer technology.
George M. Medak, Paul M. Whisenand, Gary Gack   +2 more
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Perception of beach safety at a destination beach on the Great Lakes

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
AbstractSurf‐related drowning fatalities are a public health concern in the Great Lakes region of North America, and within Canada there are few beaches with lifeguards and no regional beach safety strategy. This short paper presents the results of a survey completed in the northern hemisphere summer of 2022 to determine the perceptions of beach users ...
Chris Houser, Alex Smith
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Management Tools for Safety in Costa Rica Beaches

2017
More than 700 people have drowned in Costa Rica beaches since 2001, and so far, very few governmental actions have been developed in order to improve beach safety. RONMAC program (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica) has been doing exhaustive research on rip currents since 2010.
Isabel Arozarena Llopis, Alejandro Gutiérrez Echeverría   +1 more
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Water Utility Safety Program at Long Beach

Journal AWWA, 1963
This article discusses the Long Beach Water Department's (LBWD's) safety program. Program support is discussed at four levels of management starting with the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Long Beach, California, the executive management level, the performance management level, and the immediate supervisory level.
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