Safer Beaches: Planning, Design, and Operation

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This title helps you identify programming and activities that will maximize people's experience at the beach! "Safer Beaches: Planning, Design, and Operation" offers a systematic, practical approach to planning, designing, renovating and operating all types of beaches. This authoritative reference covers the broad topics that beach managers, lifeguards, administrators and beach enthusiasts need to know, such as safety for non-swimming beaches and swimming beaches, water quality and beach maintenance, and funding. And it delves into the finer details that will help you balance safety and beachgoer's enjoyment. "Safer Beaches" provides something rarely found in other aquatic books: practices in beach management and protection. It uses a needs analysis approach to help you identify programming and activities that will maximize people's experience at the beach. It is also featured on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.

Tom Griffiths, EdD, has over 40 years of experience in aquatic safety and is now a leader in the field. He is the president and founder of the Aquatic Safety Research Group and served as the director of aquatics and safety officer for athletics at Penn State University for nearly 25 years. In 2000, Griffiths developed the Five Minute Scanning Strategy video that assists lifeguards in being more vigilant. The strategy is now required by all Pool Management Group, Star Guard, and Ellis & Associates Lifeguards. Griffiths has been published in over 300 scientific, professional, and popular journals. He has served as the president of the National Recreation and Park Association's National Aquatics Council. In 2008 he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Swimming Hall of Fame.