Bronze Cross
Bronze Cross is the Lifesaving Society’s advanced Bronze certification and the standard for assistant lifeguard training. This 20-hour course builds on Bronze Medallion by developing stronger lifesaving judgment, active surveillance, teamwork, communication, endurance, and more complex rescue skills. Bronze Cross is also the prerequisite for the National Lifeguard program.
If you need a different date or time, please email us and we can try to arrange one together.
Details
- Certification: Lifesaving Society – Bronze Cross
- Duration: 20 hours
- Prerequisites: Bronze Medallion and Lifesaving Society Emergency First Aid or Standard First Aid, or EFA/SFA from an Ontario government approved agency (need not be current)
- Required Reference: Canadian Lifesaving Manual
- Recommended Resource: Bronze Cross Workbook
- Pathway: Prerequisite for National Lifeguard and leadership certification programs
At-a-Glance: Skills You Will Learn
- Understand assistant lifeguard roles, responsibilities, and follow-up care for non-fatal drowning victims
- Demonstrate effective communication with patrons, victims, coworkers, supervisors, and emergency personnel
- Perform two-rescuer removals, including removals using a spineboard
- Complete head-first and foot-first surface dives and underwater swims
- Organize and participate in team searches in shallow and deep water
- Perform two-rescuer adult, child, and infant drowning resuscitation on a manikin
- Respond to suspected spinal injury situations in shallow water or on land
- Develop fitness through object recovery, rescue drills, and endurance challenges
- Apply active surveillance and safety supervision scanning in aquatic environments
- Respond as part of an assistant lifeguard team to multiple-victim, submerged-victim, and supervised-setting emergencies
Any reschedule or cancellation will incur a $15 pool booking rescheduling/cancellation fee.
Upcoming Bronze Cross Dates
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