ABW March 2022

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U nfortunately, water safety appears to have been, in the past, largely ignored in the Philippine Government, which considering that the country consists of 10,700 islands, meaning that all areas are surrounded by water, also most of the country is subject to Typhoons and other weather disturbances that often create flooding, it is hard to understand why the Government had not invested more in the areas of Drowning awareness and Prevention. However since the introduction of RA- 9993 giving the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) control, of not just maritime and shipping movements, within Philippine Territorial waters, but also expanding their responsibility to safety, including the standards for Lifeguards for the Resort and Tourism Industry. Under RA 9993 the PCG issued PCG Memorandum Circular 03-14 setting the guidelines and requirements for coastal resorts as to their responsibilities and requirements, meaning that at last there are regulations in place that can be implemented so as to make recreational swimming safer for all, along with standards for the training of lifeguards, which, under PCG MC 03-14 can only be conducted by PCG accredited training organizations, which as of writing we believe there are only two in the entire country, one of which is Zambales Lifesaving Inc. (ZLI), whose progress and programs we have covered in many of our issues as they are near to our Manila Headquarters and always updating us on their progress and activities, not only in lifeguard training but in all their efforts in drowning awareness and prevention. We were interested to see how much water safety had been affected by the pandemic, so we contacted Roger Bound, the President and founder of ZLI and were surprised to find 82 ...once things start to normalize that resorts will be far more likely to conform with regulations as to their responsibilities... him in Australia, apparently to visit Australian Lifesaving Academy NSW, whose training curriculum they base their training on and other supporters such as Surf Life Saving Far North Coast (Australia) who they have a MOA with in regards to assisting them in having access to the latest training procedures and updates. Apparently ZLI have been able to do limited training during these difficult times and Roger stressed how cooperative and understanding the PCG had been during these times, in such things as allowing the extension of certificates and reassessments when lockdowns and restrictions prevented travel to attend such trainings and reassessments, this has greatly assisted the struggling resort industry to still have available maximum safety for customers who were able to avail of their services, the PCG has also assisted resorts in giving advice and guidance to businesses that had problems meeting the mandated requirements of PCG MC 03-14, rather than imposing fines that could be applied, Roger’s opinion of this is that once things start to normalize that resorts will be far more likely to conform with regulations as to their responsibilities, rather than try to ignore same. Whilst in Australia ZLI training and annual reassessments are proceeding as usual under Virgel Ramos, the ZLI Training Director along with other instructors and assessors already fully trained in all the aspects of the program, including data input and production of certificates, which have security features. We were aware that ZLI had, with approval of their Australian counterparts, already tailored the training to better suit the Philippine conditions, including a selfassessment manual and all written materials into dual language, Filipino/English and developed an electronic data-base system to manage and record all training records
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