I was an active beach goer in my younger days and especially when I lived in Miami. Whether something active such as sports or just being a sun bum. A legitimate question, when you were a lifeguard was there a concern about sun exposure especially around the face? I wonder how masks would function in the sun especially with perspiration.
Yes and no.
I guarded, thankfully, an indoor trio of pools at a luxury health club. So, sun coverage wasn’t an issue.
UNLESS...
I was either guarding or attending our monthly inservices at the local outdoor high school pool (which had a 12 foot dive well that we needed for deep water rescue training) or teaching lifeguarding at same pool, and that was from 2009 to 2019. And while they had a section on sun protection, we didn’t often do it, or we didn’t reapply often enough.
And thankfully, while I’m German and Scottish, and 52, despite the sun exposure, I have little to no *visible* sun damage. I have scary lucky genetics, and my parents (who treated their bodies like amusement parks), did too.
I shudder to think what I look like under one of those UV lights. That’s the real Dorian Gray test. Yeeks.
But, to answer your question, yes, the american red cross does a whole thing on skin protection.