Lifesaving 123 Award Course
Service Description
Lifesaving 123 Award course consists of three phases: 1. Lifesaving 1 Award: - Basic water safety, water dangers and water rescue in a swimming pool. - Identifying non-swimmers and weak swimmers. - Basic land-based rescue skill such as Reach Rescue, Throwing of Buoyant Aid, Wading Rescue (with buoyant or rigid aid) and Accompanied Rescue. - Ability to swim 100 meters in any recognized strokes. 2. Lifesaving 2 Award: - Introduction to water rescue, dangers of open water and applying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to unconscious casualty (CPR). - Expiry Air Resuscitation(EAR). - Identify the movements of non-swimmer, weak swimmer, swimmer with limb injury, unconscious non-breathing swimmer. - Land-based emergency rescue techniques such as Rope Rescue and Non-Contact Tow - Rescue of an uncooperative casualty scenario. - Ability to swim 150 meters comfortably in any recognized strokes. 3. Lifesaving 3 Award: - Understanding water rescue and treating of cramp and minor bleeding. - Sculling of water using only arms, tread water without using the arms. - Perform Resuscitation Rescue on an unconscious casualty (breathing and non-breathing). - Underwater Recovery, Defensive and Release Techniques of casualty and full-clothed emergency rescue. - Confidently swim 200 meters in any two recognized strokes. Pre-requisites: - Able to swim 100m Breaststroke - Able to float on back for 30s OR able to swim survival backstroke - Able to tread water for 1 minute - 13 years old and above (as of year of test date) *Note: Participants are expected to meet the pre-requisites before registering for this course. A skills-test will be conducted on the first session to ensure pre-requisites are met. Participants who fail the skills-test will automatically be enrolled into the next Lifesaving 123 Course (Course 2). Participants can consider joining TSR Lifesaving Preparatory Course where coaches will be providing training to help meet the Course Pre-requisites.
Contact Details
511 Upper Jurong Rd, Singapore 638366, Singapore