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Martin County details ocean rescue staffing, daily training and countywide CPR practice
Summary
Martin County staff described Ocean Rescue staffing and daily training routines, and HR/Risk Management outlined countywide CPR and safety refreshers that train about 300 employees annually.
Public safety doesn’t happen by chance, and keeping our community safe is something Martin County cares about deeply, Speaker 1, a county staff member, said.
Martin County staff described how the county’s Ocean Rescue unit and the Human Resources/Risk Management team conduct daily and weekly training to maintain readiness along the coastline and across county departments.
Speaker 2, Ocean Rescue staff, said the unit has 25 full-time employees, 19 of whom are lifeguards, and that most lifeguards are emergency medical technicians while a few are paramedics. ‘‘Our lifeguards we have this — we have a training hour from 9 to 10:00 every morning,’’ Speaker 2 said. He added that each week the lifeguards hold organized group training sessions covering a range of skills.
Speaker 2 described preventive work — which staff call “prevents” — as efforts to reduce water rescues through public education and early identification of hazards among beach patrons. ‘‘A prevent, it can be something as simple as educating the public about certain ordinances that we have at our public beaches,’’ Speaker 2 said.
Separately, Speaker 3, who represents HR and Risk Management, described countywide workplace-safety training. ‘‘What we do typically at HR and Risk is we take into account the different accidents, different incidents that happen in, throughout Martin County. We try and get a proactive approach to it, with doing different classes. Every year, I train about 300 people in the field on personal and public safety,’’ Speaker 3 said.
Speaker 3 outlined how training continues after certification: county trainers add employees to a master list and stage realistic drills using a mannequin and simulated 911 calls so responders build muscle memory for CPR and deploying automated external defibrillators.
The presentations framed public safety as a combined effort between specialized Ocean Rescue crews working the beaches and county HR/Risk staff maintaining preparedness across departments.
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