Jesús Miranda Páez, director of the Chair of Security, Emergencies and Catastrophes at the University of Malaga, spoke at the previous CIPREA meeting on ‘Psychological aspects in critical situations: cognition and behaviour in emergencies’. RFESS
Five presentations and two round tables at CIPREA2024, which will be extended to the workplace with the participation of nearly twenty countries
The main European and Latin American forum on drowning prevention will meet in Cordoba from 18 to 20 October
Five key-note speaker and two round tables discussion, as well as a workshop, make up the program of the fourth edition of the International Congress on Drowning Prevention #CIPREA2024, which will be held at the Palacio de Congresos de Córdoba from 18 to 20 October.
The #CIPREA2024, organised by the Royal Spanish Lifesaving Federation, opens to a ninth thematic area, work, which apart from contributing to the section of communications, which together are expected to expose more than half a hundred, will be articulated around one of the two round tables.
Under the title ‘Laboral situation in professional lifeguarding’, specialists from three countries will offer a multilateral view of the reality of working conditions. These will be Salvador Adrian Zetellmann, president of the Works Committee and Secretary of the Trade Union Section of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in the Lifesaving and Rescue Service of Barcelona; Daniel Meco, president of the Association of Lifesaving Swimmers of Nazaré (Portugal); José Luis Sánchez Sánchez; yacht captain, lifeguard and skipper of rescue boats; and Roberto Santiago Solari; secretary general of the Single Union of Lifeguards and Allied Workers of the Republic of Argentina (SUGARA).
The Congress, which is supported by Cordoba City Council and the Provincial Council, will be opened by Jonathon Passmore, Programme Manager of the European Environment and Health Centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, who will present the report on the state of drowning prevention in Europe, and closed by Roger Sweeney, Deputy Director General of Water Safety Ireland (Ireland), who will address the future of drowning prevention in Europe.
‘Information saves lives, so let’s save lives’ was the theme addressed by Rafael Gálvez Rivas, coordinator of Civil Protection in Puente Genil (Córdoba), at the last edition of CIPREA. RFESS
Other speakers include Idafe Gallego Martín, head of the Underwater Activities Unit of the Guardia Civil (The work of the Civil Guard Maritime Service); Adrian Mayhew, director of National Operations and Safety of Surf Life Saving GB (Great Britain) (Cost-effectiveness of investing in natural disasters); and Francisco Cano Noguera and Ana Domínguez Pachón, of the Royal Spanish Lifesaving Federation (Lifesaving sport, the key to reducing drowning?).
The performance in the rescue and care of migrants will be discussed at a round table discussions with the participation of Manuel Barroso Cáceres, head of the National Coordination Centre for Maritime Rescue (CNCS); José Antonio Carracao Meléndez, secretary general of the Ceutí Federation of Lifesaving and Rescue volunteers in Maritime Rescue of the Red Cross; Enrique Espinosa Torres, manager of the Security and Emergencies Consortium of Lanzarote; and Ahmed Taoufiq el Fahmy, lifeguard.
In addition, there will be an international workshop on the topic ‘Water Safety and Swimming in the school curriculum, can this be an effective drowning prevention strategy?’ with Torrill Hindmarch (Norges Livredningsselskap-Norway), Riitta Vienola (Finnish Swimming Teaching and Lifesaving Federation-Finland) and Janet Wilson (Royal Life Saving Society UK-United Kingdom).
As well as the new thematic area dedicated to the work, #CIPREA2024 is structured around eight other thematic areas: prevention, statistics, education and sport, rescue, health, natural disasters, migrants and refugees, and innovations.
