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Ask any water-park operator about the park’s top priority, and hopefully he or she will say guest safety. Danger is inherent anytime millions of gallons of water are mixed with thousands of guests, a high percentage of which are children. To ensure guests are safe, operators spend countless hours each season on risk-management training. To help make parks even safer, operators should work diligently to better train staff members (supervisors, lifeguards, and guest services), continually educate guests, and frequently analyze a facility to identify and minimize risks.
Anytime a serious incident occurs at an aquatic facility, whether a drowning or near-drowning, the account tends to have the same key elements:
1. Lack of adult supervision