An exploratory study of the implementation of admission standards (child:guardian ratios) in Ontario's Class A public pools
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Admission standards or specific child:guardian ratios for public pools have been endorsed and promoted by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) to prevent recreational water injuries and fatalities. However, the voluntary adoption of these admission standards in Ontario has not been evaluated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the implementation of these admission standards in Class A public pools. An online survey was developed and disseminated to Class A public pool operators in Ontario. Frequency distributions were used to describe the results. All respondents have some form of admission standards integrated into their operations, with 68% using child:parent ratios that exceed the minimum MOHLTC's recommendations. The majority of operators (87%) felt that admission standards have a positive impact and there were no known increases in water-related incidents post-implementation. Many owners/operators (78%) would support their enactment into the pool regulations. The findings from this study highlight the promise of utilizing admission standards to prevent or, at the least reduce, the burden of injury related to recreational water use in Ontario. While the results are encouraging, it is recommended that further research be conducted as this was an exploratory study only.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".