Phuket Opinion: Getting the Phuket lifeguard crisis dead wrong

The Phuket News

 

A trained Phuket lifeguard watches over swimmers during the dangerous southwest monsoon. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

PHUKET: Now that the inevitable has started to occur and the drownings without professional lifeguards on Phuket’s beaches have started, it is time for the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (PPAO, or OrBorJor) to quit posturing and get down to business. The game is over. It is time to throw in the towel on managing Phuket’s lifeguard situation, and let the municipalities take over.

 

The latest plan announced by PPAO Acting Chief Watcharin Patomwatthanapong for the Navy to train municipal officers sometime in the future is unworkable and dangerous. 

 

In its haste to assert itself over Phuket’s lifeguard crisis, the PPAO has totally missed the point. Their position is that Phuket Lifeguard Services Co Ltd, was no longer managing the service well and that a replacement agency is needed.

 

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-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-10-09

Municipalities take over? The same municipalities who can't handle taxis, tuk tuks, waste water, grill carts, flooding, garbage, all kind of scams....... 555!

Like i said a few days before they started this stuff.

Fools. 

People are dying cause the fool has no idea.

But then this is typical .

Just another day.

Unfortunately I think its has to be a private organisation/s that runs it, all levels of government from the highest ranked to the lowest in the municipalities are as bent as a dogs hind leg.

I usually frown at some of these misleading headlines. But this news headline is dead right.

This OpEd is smack on target.  

Probably need something like SLSA and training coupled to uniform accreditation ?  The qualified beach inspectors then need to be paid what they are worth !

Thailand is becoming the Hub of Flatlines.

No matter where tourists go, there it is.

On 10/9/2017 at 2:42 PM, quadperfect said:

Like i said a few days before they started this stuff.

Fools. 

People are dying cause the fool has no idea.

But then this is typical .

Just another day.

errr no people are dying because they are fools. The lack of lifeguards is no excuse.....

 

Nice Thai bash 2/10

14 hours ago, Lucky mike said:

Probably need something like SLSA and training coupled to uniform accreditation ?  The qualified beach inspectors then need to be paid what they are worth !

Pay them the same as in Australia...sweet FA....they are volunterrs..as I was

4 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Pay them the same as in Australia...sweet FA....they are volunterrs..as I was

Lifesavers are volunteers, council lifeguards are paid ! Been both.....

8 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Pay them the same as in Australia...sweet FA....they are volunterrs..as I was

Wrong, they're not all volunteers, the majority are but not all.

On 10/11/2017 at 12:08 PM, beechbum said:

Wrong, they're not all volunteers, the majority are but not all.

Perhaps, but all the people in my club were volunteers.

Yeah it was the same years ago when I was a cluby in WA(NCSLSC)  as well but has changed over the years.

15 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Perhaps, but all the people in my club were volunteers.

Same as in my club but volunteers are generally only available to work weekends considering they have other paying jobs needed to support their families. So, during the summer school holidays there was a paid lifeguard there on weekdays. I did it for 3 consecutive years plus still did volunteer work on the weekends. Surf lifesaving clubs also have competitions both within the club, interclub, regional & national championships which all added to the allure of being a clubbie.

here's another job that Thai's can't handle! Bring in Foreign Lifeguards, many will volunteer and give them Free Work Permits. Problem solved.