PROGRAMS AND EDUCATION

Royal Life Saving is Australia's largest provider of water safety education. Our programs are delivered in schools, pools and community centres daily. They are designed to build awareness of dangers in aquatic environments and to arm the community with lifesaving skills used in both prevention and rescue. 

Increasingly our skills and expertise are being used to target groups with special needs. Vietnamese rock fishermen, Remote Indigenous Communities, Arabic speaking youths are just some of the groups who have benefited from our dedication.

Our key education programs include: Keep Watch; Swim and Survive; Bronze Medallion; Grey Medallion. 

KEEP WATCH

Keep Watch is a public education program of Royal Life Saving Society - Australia, aimed at preventing drowning deaths of children in all aquatic locations.  There are four main strategies of the Keep Watch program that parents and carers of children are encouraged to undertake to prevent children from drowning.

Keep Watch Strategies

1. Supervise your child
2. Provide barriers to water locations
3. Familiarise your child with water
4. Learn resuscitation

The Keep Watch program has a variety of useful resources including fact sheets and brochures. To learn more about the Keep Watch program, visit the Keep Watch Website. 

SWIM AND SURVIVE 

More than swimming lessons, it's an adventure!

Royal Life Saving's Swim and Survive program is a national swimming and water safety program educating 5 to 14 year olds all over Australia. Since 1982 nearly 10 million Australians have participated in the program.

Swim and Survive provides a broad, balanced program of swimming, water safety and survival skills in preparation for a lifetime of safe activity in, on or near the water.

Swim and Survive develops:

• Swimming technique
• Water safety
• Water confidence
• Survival
• Endurance

Swim and Survive caters for children of all abilities. The early levels provide opportunities to build confidence and respect for the water, whilst the upper levels prepare the child for the increased complexity of their relationship with aquatic environments.

Bright and colourful certificates reward children for the many developmental steps that they will take in learning to Swim and Survive.

Remember that a quality swimming and water safety program should extend throughout the child's schooling.

To learn more about the Swim and Survive program, visit the Swim and Survive Website. 

BRONZE MEDALLION 

The Bronze and Rescue awards strand teaches an understanding of the lifesaving principles embodied in the four components of water rescue education: judgement, knowledge, skills and fitness.

The Bronze Medallion has been operating for over 100 years with many Australians undertaking the program since commencement. The Bronze Medallion is considered the pinnacle of the awards in the community.

The program focuses on developing the participants' survival and rescue skills enabling them to make the right survival decisions that may help them or others survive and aquatic emergency.

Participants learn a range of rescue methods and personal survival skills in preparation for challenging rescues of increased risk. They learn to respond to resuscitation and emergency care situations involving conscious and unconscious casualties. Participants will develop stroke efficiency and endurance.

To learn more about the Bronze Medallion program, visit the Bronze Medallion Website.

GREY MEDALLION 

The Grey Medallion is a water safety and lifesaving skills program for adults aimed at reducing the drowning rates and encouraging a healthy, independent and active lifestyle. The program endeavours to teach participants a range of personal survival techniques, provide them with skills to deal with an emergency situation, how to improve their supervision of children and to develop confidence and competence to enjoy aquatic exercise and other water-based activities safely. 

There are four main components of the program:

1. Water Safety Knowledge
2. Resuscitation and Emergency Care
3. Aquatic Exercise
4. Personal Survival and Lifesaving Skills

 To learn more about the Grey Medallion program, visit the Grey Medallion Website.