The standard PDRMA search will look for web pages and resources that include all of the keywords that you enter. Because of this, your search results will become more specific as you enter more keywords. The results will be sorted so the items with the most occurrences of your keywords will be at the top of the list. If you find that there are too many items returned in the search, you may want to enter another keyword to narrow down the list. If you did not get what you where searching for, either remove a keyword or two to make the search more general, or try a different set of keywords.
Leisure Risk Network (LRN) Resource Number Search
If you are searching for a document and know its document number you can
find it by entering LRN# + the document number. For example,
if you wanted document #017 "Instructions for the PDRMA Loss Control
Review" you would enter LRN#017 and click the PDRMA
Search button above. (Tip: you can leave off the leading
0. LRN#17 will also bring up document #017).
You can also download an index of all LRN documents arranged by category in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word format.
How to Read the Results
The gray bar is divided into two sections. On the left, it will tell you what
file formats were searched (figure 1) or the type of search performed (figure
2) if a specialized search was performed.
Figure 1. File Formats
Figure 2. Specialized Search
The right side will show you which results you are looking at and what keywords
were used. In figure 1 we are looking at results 1 through 10 with 13 total
results found for a search using keywords lrnfax and directory.
Next is the list of results.
Figure 3. Search Results
The results start with the title of the page/document. The next line lists
one or more file formats that are available for this page/document. These
are links to the resource in the type of format listed. In figure 3 both
documents listed are available in either Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word Document
formats. Click on the appropriate link for the format you desire to open
it or right-click on it to bring up a menu that would allow you to save/download
it to your computer. (Tip: the title is also a link to the left most
file format listed. In the example above, these are both Adobe PDFs)
Under the file formats is the document number with the description of
the resource next. The last line will show the resource category, the
amount of pages in the document and the last modified date of the document.
Note that not all documents will have this information available or it
may not be applicable to the resource type in which case nothing will
be shown, i.e. videos will not have a number of pages listed; web pages
will not have a lrn#, category, description or number of pages.
At the very bottom of the results page is the search navigation. There are arrows
to go the next or previous page of results and numbers that allow you to
go straight to a particular page of results.
Figure 4. Search Navigation
Advanced Search
If you click the link Advanced Search above, you will be taken
to a page that gives you more options for customizing your search. You can select
how many items are returned on a search results page and what file formats to
include in the search. You also have the ability to fine tune your search by
entering keywords into one or more categories. There is the all keywords
search which uses the keywords exactly like the standard search does - all the
keywords must show up in the page/resource for it to show up in the results.
You can enter a phrase to search for in the document. You can
use the at least one search which means one or any combination
of the words must show up in the page/resource for it to show up in the results.
You also can exclude words so that any results will be left out if they contain
any of the entered keywords in the without search.