Aquatic Products and Links
Aquatic Safety Research Group encourages all
aquatic professionals to take advantage of the many useful resources
available online. To order Griff's Guard Stations, go to
Paragon Aquatics,
and to order the Pool
Safety Sign System, go to
Clarion.
Bookmark this page before visiting some of the web sites. If you know of
a web site that you find particularly useful for your area of aquatic
management, please let us know! Contact us!
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Griff's Guard Stations
Griff’s Guard Station™
and
Griff’s Guard Station™ with Sun Shade were developed as the perfect partners in water
safety for Tom Griffiths’ Five-Minute
Scanning Strategy®.
Together they help increase lifeguard effectiveness and thereby increase
water safety and enjoyment through accident prevention.The Five-Minute Scanning Strategy® helps lifeguards keep alert on the job. It is based on physiological and psychological task-involved research. The process requires guards to perform specific tasks in five minute duty segments.
Download today the Specification Sheet for Griff's Guard Stations and see the advantages these revolutionary designs offer your lifeguards! To order Griff's Guard Stations, go to Paragon Aquatics.
Visual Pool Safety System
Safety Signage to Reduce Swimming Pool Accidents and Liability
The Problem: Pool signage that we've grown up with,
just doesn't work. Important, need-to-know safety messages are often
buried in a list of pool rules. Many times words are used instead of
state-of-the art, standards-compliant, attention-getting graphical
symbols. In short, many pool signs are ineffective.
The Solution: Developed with Dr. Tom Griffiths of
Aquatic Safety Research Group, the
Clarion Pool Safety Sign System is a
proprietary set of signs that contain both the detail needed to
adequately inform pool users and the brevity needed to make sure the
signs are not dismissed.
To order the Pool Safety Sign System, go to
Clarion.
- Graphic Based. The Clarion Pool Safety Sign System uses ISO-formatted graphical symbols to draw attention and communicate the core safety messages across language barriers.
- Set Apart. The critical safety messages are not buried in a list of pool rules. Instead, they're separated and displayed in several standards-compliant eye-catching formats.
- Variety. The Clarion Pool Safety Sign System utilizes not only attention-grabbing sings, but also ANSI signs with explanatory text. Together, these signs reiterate, reinforce and explain the most important pool safety messages and give pool operators the means to prove that they have met their "duty to warn."
- Depth. Signs are carefully developed, balancing the detail needed to convey the intended message and the brevity required so the message is not dismissed. Each sign's message is tailored for its specific location, viewing distance and anticipated viewing time.
- Proven. The four accident prevention signs have passed rigorous
multi-age target audience comprehension testing, providing the
premises owner with positive evidence that adequate warnings were
posted.
These signs are brightly colored and appropriately shaped to warn aquatic quests of the Big Three concerns around the water:
NO DIVING/SHALLOW WATER
CLOSELY WATCH YOUR CHILDREN
NO BREATH HOLDING & PROLONGED UNDERWATER SWIMMING