Elijah Finkelshteyn: Standardizing Equipment

Candidate: Elijah Finkelshteyn

Related Goal: Elijah Finkelshteyn : Improve Guard Response to Prepare for Variable Conditions

Objective: Standardizing what equipment should be brought to an activated EAP, when variable conditions apply (not enough guards present to bring rescue equipment).

Rescue Equipment Priority Guide:

Backboard -> If person is not out of the water, Guard’s will not be able to provide any form of care (compression, AED, etc..)
AED -> Best way to restart a heart
Guard Tube -> Only brought when a Backboard & AED is already accounted for. Response team should be ready to take over the zone
Oxygen bag -> Guards can always provide manual breaths (don’t necessarily need an O2 tank)

Note: If you can bring everything you should. Otherwise the 2 items that MUST be brought to saves are a Backboard & AED.

If a guard is ever alone they should be ready to bring both items AED (there is a strap for a reason), and a Backboard (be ready to pull someone out of the water).

Related Meetings:

Elijah Finkelshteyn: Meeting #4

At our fourth meeting (7/24/25)- also my birthday. Elena and I reviewed our Task: in service from the last meeting and finalized any details we had left. After that we worked on creating a new task: standardizing what equipment should be brought to saves based on the amount of guards present.

On another note we completed a supervised VAT drop. The primary and response team passed with flying colors.

Action items:

Having Jeff review our task of standardizing equipment. Once we get his feedback on it, we will make any changes necessary. We will inform leadership of this (standardizing the equipment / what to bring based on the amount of people present). As well as reviewing this at the next all staff meeting.

Task Completed: No

Blank indicates not completed.