Our CorePass® Lifesaving Bronze Medallion certification provides lifeguards and good Samaritans the skills to respond to basic flat water emergencies.
According to the United Nations, every year an estimated 236,000 people drown, making drowning the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide.
Using our CorePass® Lifesaving Bronze Medallion certification product, candidates can be easily tested against international best practices for lifeguarding at pools and other flat water environments.
The World Congress on Drowning recommend that all emergency service personnel should know how to swim, and perform CPR. Our CorePass® Lifesaving Bronze Medallion is an easy way for public safety agencies to demonstrate their personnel meet this societal expectation.
Whether used as a stand-alone assessment, or the assessment is integrated within a training programme, a summative assessment is performed by a designated IPSQA Assessor who will test the candidate against a range of skills and knowledge requirements including:
- Water safety principles
- Shore based rescues
- In-water rescue breathing
- Swimming skills
- Survival skills
- Victim assist and tows
- Defensive techniques
- Shallow water search and recovery
- Multiple victim response
Our CorePass® scheme is different from our other certifications (such as CertPubS®, DefraQual®, ProQual, WorkQual etc), as it does not use the ISO17024:2012 standard. This means the assessor can also be the candidate’s instructor and a lighter level of quality assurance applies. Assessment is still robust with the Accredited Testing Provider still required to ensure assessment tools used are compliant and that evidence is retained for external audit and moderation.
For candidates seeking certification for specialist water rescue, IPSQA offers a range of other certification products including:
- IPSQA CorePass® River Safety I/II
- IPSQA CorePass® Flood Worker Safety
- IPSQA CorePass® First Aid I-IV
- IPSQA Certificate in Public Safety (Swiftwater Operator)
- IPSQA Certificate in Public Safety (Swiftwater Technician)
- IPSQA CorePass® DEFRA Module 1 Awareness
- IPSQA DefraQua®l Water & Flood Rescue (Modules 2-5, plus Team Commander)
- IPSQA ProQual: NFPA 1006 – Surface Rescue (Operator & Technician)
- IPSQA ProQual: NFPA 1006 – Swiftwater Rescue (Operator & Technician)
Candidates must demonstrate skills consistently with approved references such as the text American Red Cross Lifeguarding Manual and Swimming & Lifesaving – Water Safety for all Australians (6th ed)
Contact us or your local Accredited Testing Centre for further information.