Enhancing lifeguard performance: A multidisciplinary approach

该项目旨在通过借鉴组织心理学，人为因素，认知科学和计算机科学等学科的一系列理论，经验和方法论方法，提高游泳者溺水风险的及时识别。救生员对于维护水上场馆的公共安全至关重要，然而，尽管他们的存在，每年都会发生致命和非致命的溺水事件，但人们对在如此复杂，动态的环境中影响警惕，扫描和持续注意力的因素知之甚少。该项目的预期成果包括基于证据的解决方案，用于选择，培训和保持救生员的绩效，这些解决方案考虑到组织和个人因素。这将通过提供尽可能安全的社区游泳池，提高澳大利亚在城市和农村中心建立社会资本的能力。

This project aims to improve the timely identification of swimmers at risk of drowning by drawing on a range of theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches from the disciplines of organisational psychology, human factors, cognitive science and computer science. Lifeguards are vital for maintaining public safety at aquatic venues, however despite their presence, fatal and non-fatal drownings occur every year with little known about the factors that affect vigilance, scanning and sustained attention in such a complex, dynamic environment. Expected outcomes of the project include evidence-based solutions for selecting, training and maintaining the performance of lifeguards that account for both organisational and individual factors. These will improve Australia’s ability to build social capital in both urban and rural centres by providing the safest possible community swimming pools.