The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) UK offers a wide ranging portfolio of awards and courses for everyone. There are a number of community courses, lifesaving and life support awards, open water awards, lifeguarding qualifications and training and assessing qualifications. No matter what you want to do, there is something for everyone!
The following pages give a brief outline of all the awards on offer within the West Region:
- Community Courses - These attendance courses are designed for the community to teach life support skills in dealing with adult, children and baby casualties.
- Lifesaving – These awards cover teaching lifesaving skills from Rookie level to Bronze Medallion up to the highest award Distinction. People of all ages can take a lifesaving award at a level to suit their age and ability.
- Life Support - These awards cover adult, child and baby CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation), basic first aid and dealing with unconscious casualties.
- Open Water Awards - These awards teach a range of different lifesaving and life support skills and techniques in open water environments such as beaches, lakes and rivers. There is something for everyone including gaining qualifications to aid you in your work or to help gain employment.
- Specialist Programmes - These programmes as specially designed for different environments and different groups. From the Police Lifesaving award to the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) to the National Rescue Award for Swimming Teachers and Coaches (NRASTC), there are a wide range of awards available.
- Training and Assessing Qualifications – All of the above programmes are delivered by qualified Trainer Assessors or Rookie Instructors. There are a number of different qualifications for those youth members wanting to learn more about how to teach and assess, to those experienced members who want to train and support new teachers and assessors.
