Lifeguards play a crucial role in ensuring water safety, but they also are uniquely positioned to promote skin cancer prevention and proper sunscreen use.^1,2 There are several benefits and challenges to offering skin cancer prevention training for lifeguards.³ We examine the advantages of training, highlight the role lifeguards can play in larger public skin cancer prevention efforts, and address practical techniques for developing lifeguardfocused skin cancer education programs. By providing this knowledge to lifeguards, we can improve community health outcomes and encourage sun-safe behaviors in high-risk outdoor locations.

Source:

Verma, K. (2025). Training lifeguards to assist in skin cancer prevention. Cutis, 115(5). https://doi.org/10.12788/cutis.1213

https://www.mdedge.com/cutis/article/272493/melanoma/training-lifeguards-assist-skin-cancer-prevention