Kirra Surf Life Saving Club

Surf Rescue Certificate

This course usu­ally runs for 8–19 weeks

 

Pre­req­ui­sites

• Can­di­dates must be a finan­cial mem­ber for the cur­rent season

• Can­di­dates must be a min­i­mum of 13 years old on the date of assessment

• Have com­pleted a 200 metre swim in five (5) min­utes or less prior to com­mence­ment of course (signed and observed by an autho­rised club per­son). This can be done in a swim­ming pool of not less than 25 metres, or over a mea­sured open water course.

 

Course Out­line

• Basic First Aid

• Work as part of a team

• Pub­lic Safety and Aquatic Rescue

• Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

• Occu­pa­tional Health & Safety

 

Assess­ment

• Per­form a board & tube res­cue of a con­scious & uncon­scious patient

• Per­form basic first aid

• Per­form Resus­ci­ta­tion and Patient Assessment

• Com­plete a 100m Run, 100m Swim, 100m Run in under 5 minutes

• Com­mu­ni­cate on Patrol via signals

 

Requal­i­fi­ca­tion

Mem­bers are required to re-qual­ify this award annu­ally. Re-qual­i­fi­ca­tions take around 2–3 hours to complete.