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| The NARS Pool Lifeguard course is essential for those employees who are require the necessary skills to observe a swimming pool as their full time job. Below are the course details from the STA website - www.sta.co.uk |
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Entry Requirements
Candidates must:
- Be able to swim 100 metres on their front and 100 metres on their back
- Be able to swim 50 metres in 1 minute
- Be able to surface dive and recover an object from the deepest part of the pool
- Be 16 years of age, or older, at the time of the examination
- Pay the requisite registration fee to the STA
- Attend a course of instruction for a minimum of 36 hours; this includes the Aquatic Rescue Foundation Unit
- (Where candidates have not undertaken prior reading and completed ARFU worksheets prior to the course then the minimum time will be 30 hours)
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NaRS Pool Lifeguard Specification
The specification for the qualification is:
Theory Section
Complete the worksheets to demonstrate a clear understanding of the pool safety operating procedures and how they relate to pool supervision covering the following topics:
- The role and duties of a lifeguard
- The legislative background
- The swimming pool and specialist water features
- Pool safety operating procedures
- First Aid
- Resuscitation
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Rescue Section
With minimum additional clothing of a T-shirt and shorts or skirt. Demonstrate the ability to carry out the following safely and effectively:
Either:
- Using a reaching aid, rescue a casualty in difficulty 2 metres from the poolside
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- Using a poolside rescue aid (rope, throw bag, torpedo buoy, lifebelt etc), rescue a casualty in difficulty 8 metres from the poolside
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- Using a rescue aid wade 5 metres to rescue a non-swimmer just out of their depth and assist them out of the pool.
Swim 20 metres to a weak swimmer in difficulty and perform a 20 metre contact tow to safety and assist them out of the pool and provide aftercare. (The casualty should be of equivalent weight and size to the rescuer). There is a time limit of 20 seconds to cover the first 20 metres.
Swim 5 metres to a casualty and tow 10 metres demonstrating a tow suitable for either:
- A non-swimmer
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- An injured swimmer.
Swim 5 metres to recover a simulated body from the bottom of the deepest part of the pool (using a submersible dummy or manikin). On reaching the surface exchange the simulated body for a live simulated unresponsive casualty, tow to the side and, with assistance land and place in the recovery position.
Swim 5 metres to a prone casualty with a suspected spinal injury, turn the casualty who is breathing, take to safety, and support the casualty with the aid of assistance for:
- A casualty in shallow water
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- A casualty in deep water
Acting as a lifeguard, individually, or as part of a team, initiate the appropriate procedures, prevent and/or rescue and provide aftercare of 2 possible casualties from a previously unknown simulated emergency situation.
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Resuscitation Section
Using a live simulated unconscious casualty (not a manikin) demonstrate:
- Turning a casualty from prone to supine
- Checking the airway, signs of breathing and signs of circulation
- The action for vomiting
- The recovery position and aftercare
- Obtaining an airway on a suspected spinal injury casualty with assistance
- The action for vomiting for a suspected spinal injury, with assistance
- Using a facemask on a suitable manikin, demonstrate rescue breathing for 2 minutes
- Using a suitable adult manikin, demonstrate 1 and 2 person cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for a total of 4 minutes. (Face and supplementary oxygen masks may be used).
- Demonstrate CPR for 2 minutes each on:
- A child manikin
- A baby manikin
- Complete a 25 question multiple choice paper on Resuscitation and First Aid
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Site-Specific Training
After completion of the NaRS[PL] course and examination candidates will be qualified to act a probationary pool lifeguard. To become fully qualified candidates must:
- Undertake induction and on-the-job training, under supervision, in the site-specific procedures of the employer, in accordance with the regulations of the employer.
- Complete the site-specific worksheets to the satisfaction of the pool management in respect of every pool at which the lifeguard operates.
- Undertake ongoing training.
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NaRS Pool Lifeguard Assessment
The qualification is assessed as set out below; candidates must satisfy all of the following:
- Continual assessment by the tutor.
- Completion of the Portfolio to the satisfaction of the course tutor (Foundation and NaRS[PL]).
- Complete the Worksheets to the satisfaction of the tutor and examiner (Foundation and NaRS[PL]).
- Completion of 5, multiple-choice examination papers, each question is worth 1 mark, with a 70% pass mark.
- Complete a 25 question, 30 minute multiple-choice, examination paper with questions on the resuscitation and aftercare of babies, children and adults and on basic first aid (pass mark 18).
- Demonstrating the ability to carry out various defined rescue activities in a safe manner.
- Demonstrating CPR and the preparatory actions and aftercare.
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