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Perception of beach safety at a destination beach on the Great Lakes
Canadian Geographer / Geographie CanadienAbstractSurf‐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
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Economic Analysis of Beach Safety Level on the Contingent Valuation in Haeundae Beach
Journal of Coastal Research, 2014ABSTRACT Jo, E.; Yun, H.S.; Suh, Y.C.; Lee, J., and Lee, J.L., 2014. Economic analysis of beach safety level on the contingent valuation in Haeundae Beach. The beach is the most popular tourism place during the summer vacation, which contributes to local economic improvement and plays the key role in beach tourism resources.
Jooyong Lee, Jung Lyul Lee
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Beach management policy analysis concerning safety flag systems in Northern Spain
Marine Policy, 2022 Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier LtdThe aim of this paper is to analyse the meaning of beach safety flags and their management along the Northern Spanish coast.
Imanol Basterretxea-Iribar +1 more
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Perceptions of beach safety: A comparison of beach users and managers
Coastal Management, 1989Abstract 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 +2 more
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Do red and yellow flags indicate a danger zone?: Exploring Japanese university students’ beach safety behaviour and their perceptions of Australian beach safety signage [PDF]
Safety ScienceBackground: Coastal drowning is a tragic regular occurrence in Australia, and in the decade 2012–2022, 455 overseas-born beachgoers drowned. Being one of the top five countries of international visitors who drown, Japanese tourists are an at-risk group ...
Masaki Shibata +2 more
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A probabilistic model of bathing beach safety
Science of The Total Environment, 1975An 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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2018
Many beach lifeguarding organizations recognize that, as providers of public safety, their primary role of drowning prevention through rescue is invariably underpinned by promotion of water and non-water beach injury prevention. In keeping with the axiom (attributed to Benjamin Franklin in relation to fire safety) that an ounce of prevention is worth a
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Many beach lifeguarding organizations recognize that, as providers of public safety, their primary role of drowning prevention through rescue is invariably underpinned by promotion of water and non-water beach injury prevention. In keeping with the axiom (attributed to Benjamin Franklin in relation to fire safety) that an ounce of prevention is worth a
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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), 1971Not 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 +2 more
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Feasibility study of a water safety data collection for beaches
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2006This study examined the feasibility of a methodology for collecting information on water safety on beaches. Previous work showed that lifeguards and lifesavers were unreliable data collectors as they often did not have time to devote to it. The aim of this study was to trial a data collection using dedicated data collectors.
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