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

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  +65 9644 3077

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