Pool Pump Crisis

As the weekend maintenance supervisor at Clearwater Aquatics Center, you discover a catastrophic failure in the main filtration system. Pressure is building in the chlorine injection manifold, threatening to release toxic gas over three packed swimming pools. You have minutes to prevent a mass casualty event, but the facility's owner is more concerned about avoiding a shutdown.

Challenges

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Popularity

Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Weekend Maintenance Supervisor

Conversation Partner

Marcus Sterling, Regional Operations Director

Setting

Humid equipment room bathed in pulsing red emergency lights, walls vibrating from failing pumps

Location

Clearwater Aquatics Center, Equipment Basement

Learning Objectives

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Convince management to authorize emergency evacuation

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Prevent chlorine gas formation by properly sequencing pump shutdown

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Document critical safety violations for liability protection

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“What the hell is going on down there? The system's showing critical pressure alerts, and I've got 300 paying customers upstairs. You better not be thinking about hitting that evacuation alarm.”

This is how Marcus Sterling, Regional Operations Director's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#872

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