Shayne Baker Oam

• Doctor Professional Studies
• University of Southern Queensland

The role and importance of reflective practice have been thoroughly documented and its benefits are well established. When coupled with research in a higher education context, a similar importance for reflection can be extended to professional development, leadership, and work-based learning. However, the relation of reflective practice to work-bas...

Introduction WHO guidance supports implementation of drowning prevention interventions. This study aimed to examine barriers and facilitators of use of WHO guidance on basic swimming and water safety skills in low-resource settings, gathering insights into inform codesign of technical resources. Methods Mixed methods were used comprising WHO guida...

Purpose This research investigates the types of critical business situations worked on by multinational corporations' senior managers and the competencies they employ to achieve desired outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a database of N = 440 critical success incidents obtained from semi-structured interviews with a sam...

Background The World Health Organization recommend the teaching of basic swimming skills to school aged children, and the training of community members in rescue and resuscitation as key interventions for the prevention of drowning. Recent practical guidance published by the WHO provides a high-level synopsis of the processes, policies and document...

In Victoria, Australia, culturally and linguistically diverse communities are more than twice as likely to drown than their Australian-born counterparts. One explanation is the lack of feasible, community-led approaches to water safety and swimming education. A community engagement framework was used to develop and implement a 5-day pool program to...

Drowning and aquatic incident dictionary

Surf lifesaving members are essential first responders who patrol public waterways, performing rescues and resuscitation to individualsin the community when needed. In this way, surf lifesaving members experience arduous physical requirements alongside extensive psychological stress during resuscitation. Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) represent...

Flooding is a significant cause of human and economic loss in the African region, including in South Africa. Flood mitigation and response in South Africa is challenging due to a range of environmental, infrastructure, and policy constraints. Lifeguards represent a potential additional workforce to bolster flood mitigation and response. This study...

Abstract Background: Drowning is a significant public health issue with more than 320,000 deaths globally every year. These numbers are greatly underestimated, however, due to factors such as inadequate data collection, inconsistent categorization and failure to report in certain regions and cultures. The objective of this study was to develop a st...

Hot spot policing is policing focused on small and specific geographical locations where crime is concentrated. The appeal of focusing resources on a small number of highactivity crime areas is based on a belief that if crime can be prevented in hot spots, then total crime rates across a city or a policing district will be reduced. This research pr...

Context Psychiatric sequelae, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), have been described for survivors of traumatic, life-threatenineg events. While the experience of drowning can be terrifying and a frequently lethal event, the available literature regarding nonfatal drowning survivors has largely overlooked the psychiatric sequelae that...

Introduction Flooding causes significant mortality and morbidity, with impacts expected to increase with climate change. Ensuring adequate country-level flood mitigation and response capacity is key. Lifeguards, traditionally used for drowning prevention, may represent an additional workforce for flood emergency response. Methods Through an anonym...

The authors presented a poster at the International Life Saving Foundation's World Conference on Drowning Prevention 2019 in Durban, South Africa titled, "Finding an Aquatic Voice," that was the basis for this article. The conference theme was "Growing Global Drowning Prevention Capacity,” and the aim of our poster’s contribution to the conference...

Issue addressed: Internationally, inland waterways are identified as leading locations for drowning. 'Nippers' programs provide coastal lifesaving and water safety knowledge and skills to children aged 5-14 years in Australia. However, a 49% increase in Victorian inland waterway drowning compared with the 10-year average, necessitated adapting the...

Background Drowning is a significant public health issue with more than 320,000 deaths globally every year. These numbers are greatly underestimated, however, due to factors such as inadequate data collection, inconsistent categorization and failure to report in certain regions and cultures. The objective of this study was to develop a standardised...

Resumen Antecedentes: El ahogamiento es un problema significativo de salud pública con más de 320.000 muertes cada año en el mundo. Sin embargo, estas cifras están muy subestimadas debido a factores como la recopilación inadecuada de datos, la categorización inconsistente y la falta de informes en ciertas regiones y culturas. El objetivo de este es...

The philosophical approach of work-based learning (WBL) characterizes how practice professionals learn and develop knowledge to participate effectively in a civil society. Specifically, the approach explains the relationship between the professional, the world in which they work, learning from, through and at work, as well as the potential impact w...

The authors presented a poster at the International Life Saving Foundation's World Conference on Drowning Prevention 2019 in Durban, South Africa titled, "Finding an Aquatic Voice," that was the basis for this article. The conference theme was "Growing Global Drowning Prevention Capacity," and the aim of our poster's contribution to the conference...

The following recommendations were developed in April-May 2020 and based on the current knowledge of the SARSCoV- 2 virus (COVID-19). As countries, regions and aquatic organisations are at different stages of the disease and have different approaches to reducing the impact of the virus, there may be variations in practice that need to be considered...

There are an estimated 360000 drownings every year as listed by World Health Organisation (WHO) and this number is non-disaster related. Though all indicators suggest that the impact of increased and more intense weather events provides increased threat in the future. Another contributing development is that with over 600 million people living less...

Developing a poster to help people find an aquatic voice when first entering and exiting water

The global impact of drowning (360k per annum) as highlighted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has had a positive influence on the desire and commitment of countries to develop and support initiatives to address the impact of drowning in their communities. The major challenge is the demand for a quick and effective response to engage the co...

The presentation was based on sharing the outcomes from a pre-conference workshop that we facilitated with participants from Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand.

The simple act of a novice learner getting into and then out of the water sets in motion a whole new world of interactions that can fascinate and greatly empower us as swimming and water safety educators. Very young children just like the rest of the population are drawn to experiment with or near the event horizon and subliminal transition zones...

The simple act of a novice learner getting into and then out of the water sets in motion a whole new world of interactions that can fascinate and greatly empower us as swimming and water safety educators. Very young children just like the rest of the population are drawn to experiment with or near the event horizon and subliminal transition zones o...

In early summer of 2017 and 2018 almost 200 children participated in a program facilitated by Downs Little Lifeguards (http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/sport-recreation/swimming-pools-gyms/13096-downs-little-lifeguards-program), a regional community initiative developed specifically to ensure that children in regional and rural Austra...

An ongoing challenge for education and training providers is to ensure learners can achieve maximum learning and recognition for their vocational education pathways. The strategy and case to be presented could best be described as the 3 Ps approach to the provision of vocational education and training, that is: I. How we support people in their edu...

The knowledge economy is compelling business leaders to adopt creative approaches to become and remain relevant and competitive. Business has the opportunity to use many of the learnings from art and philosophy in order to effectively respond to this situation. This article takes insights from creative artists and thinkers such as Dante, Yeats, Cho...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which work-based learning could potentially improve education and training pathways in Australia. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews education and training provision in Australia through a contextualisation of the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) with work-based learni...

This workbook builds on the first workbook in the series of two and will provide readers with the necessary resources and basis to undertake the design and development of assessment for work-integrated learning programs. The material will provide some valuable revision of the Principles of Assessment, the Rules of Evidence and the Dimensions of Com...

Work integrated learning (WIL) is one of the growing forms of work based learning (WBL) that is being embraced as a key learning initiative to engage with industry by the vocational education and training (VET) sector. The fundamental definition that is applied to work integrated learning is that it is a term to describe institutionally prescribed...

This paper sets out the thinking behind a long-term project in which the authors have employed elements of activity theory and expansive learning theory to review and analyse both the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF: 2013) and application of contemporary work based learning approaches. The researchers are progressively working through the...

WH&S Principles, Planning Routine Tasks, Quality Procedures, Working With Others, Hand Tools, Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Manual Metal Arc Welding, Gas Metal Arc Welding, Engineering Measurements, Mechanical Cutting, Workshop Machines, Power Tools & Hand Held Operations, Interpreting Technical Drawings, Metals.

The International Lifesaving Federation (ILS) recognises that the Asia Pacific region presents substantial challenges in the global effort to reduce the alarming death by drowning statistics in the region. The main exception to this situation is that Australia has a world-renowned history in lifesaving, dating back to the 19th century with the esta...

WH&S, Working Effectively, Hand & Power Tools, Plant & Equipment, Planning, Communication, Measurements & Calculations, Plans & Specifications,Basic Levelling, Concreting to Simple Forms, Estimation & Costing, Handling Materials, Surface Preparation, Joining Timber, Materials.