Bronze Medallion
Bronze Medallion is the Lifesaving Society’s core Bronze award and the starting point for serious lifesaving training. This 15-hour course develops judgment, knowledge, skill, and fitness for real-life emergencies in, on, and around the water. Candidates build assessment and problem-solving ability and prepare for the assistant lifeguard training that follows in Bronze Cross.
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Details
- Certification: Lifesaving Society – Bronze Medallion
- Duration: 15 hours
- Prerequisites: Minimum 13 years of age or Bronze Star certification (need not be current)
- Instruction & Certification: Current Lifesaving Instructors teach and evaluate most items; Bronze Examiners certify candidates
- Required Reference: Canadian Lifesaving Manual
- Recommended Resource: Bronze Medallion Workbook
- Pathway: Prerequisite for assistant lifeguard training in Bronze Cross
At-a-Glance: Skills You Will Learn
- Understand the Lifesaving Society, the Drowning Chain of Survival, and the rescue process used in aquatic emergencies
- Recognize the risks of cold-water immersion and apply safer rescue decision-making
- Perform self-rescue skills while wearing clothing, including disorienting entries and basic survival techniques
- Improve swimming ability with front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, head-up swims, and support kicks
- Recognize different victim types, including weak swimmers, non-swimmers, unconscious victims, and injured victims
- Demonstrate entries, removals, defences, releases, tows, and carries used in Bronze rescues
- Complete shallow-water searches and recover a submerged victim from deep water
- Perform single-rescuer adult, child, and infant drowning resuscitation on a manikin, including complications
- Build fitness through rescue drills and the Bronze Medallion endurance challenge
- Perform rescue situations from land, in open water, and for a non-breathing victim at the surface in deep water, including removal and CPR follow-up
Upcoming Bronze Medallion Dates
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