To become a trained pool lifeguard, you must have a certificate for either the pool lifeguard test or the professional lifeguard test. To find lifeguard training near me, try checking with local community centers, swimming pools, beaches, or lifeguard branches. You can also search online for American lifeguard training courses or contact your nearest American lifeguard for information on lifeguard certification classes
To take the tests, a test fee must be paid to the USA Swimming Union. The funds are used to update the union’s judges as well as to administer the tests. You can read more about the requirements for obtaining a certificate for the pool lifeguard test and the professional lifeguard test below.
The owner of the swimming pool decides which test must be taken. The owner is typically the municipality, which can choose to delegate the decision to the bath master/hall inspector.
The pool lifeguard test
A passed pool lifeguard test gives a certificate to work as a lifeguard in the facility in which the test is taken. Instructors must have a pool lifeguard certificate if there are no lifeguards working in the facility when teaching is held.
Age
Anyone who turns 17 before the end of the year can apply for the pool lifeguard test.
Clothing: The pool lifeguard test must be completed in the facility’s lifeguard uniform or with a minimum of shorts and T-shirt. Swimming goggles are not allowed.
Judge
A judge with a valid license from the USA Swimming Union can judge the USA Swimming Union’s pool lifeguard test. You can find a judge near you under Find a judge .
Certificate
After passing the certificate is sent via e-mail. The sample can be paid for by Dankort from the sample taker or via invoice. The certificate is valid for one year and applies to the pool in which the sample was taken.
If you’re looking for lifeguard training near me location, you can try checking with your local parks and recreation department, community colleges, or swimming pools. Another great option is to search for American lifeguard training courses online or contact your nearest American lifeguard for information on upcoming lifeguard certification classes.
A sample can be transferred to another facility after a thorough review of the other facility. A sample can never be transferred to a facility that has a deeper pool depth than the pool where the sample was taken.
Where and how: To take a pool lifeguard test, you can advantageously contact your local swimming pool or swimming club and ask them if you can take a pool lifeguard test together with the swimming pool or club.
Swimming pool
If this is not an option, you must contact a judge yourself who can take you to the test. You can find a judge near you under the Find a judge list . You must make sure you find time in a swimming pool, as well as the necessary equipment for the deposition – a rescue dummy, a first aid training dummy and a training defibrillator.
To take the pool lifeguard test, it is recommended that you have taken at least a 4-6 hour first aid course, but this is not a requirement.
Several swimming clubs and swimming pools in Denmark have established lifeguard teams where you can train lifeguard skills and take the test.
How do you become a lifeguard?
Would you like to help save lives? Are you really good at swimming? Then it is possible for you to become a lifeguard.
Here in the article you can read more about how to become a lifeguard and what such a person actually does.
What is the function of a lifeguard?
The lifeguard’s task is to:
- Monitor a beach/coast or a public swimming pool
- This is called a shore lifeguard or a pool lifeguard
- Help bathers in distress to get ashore
- Rescue can take place in several ways, but typically involves the rescuer jumping into the water, getting to the person in distress as quickly as possible, and getting them to land
- Perform resuscitative work, e.g. mouth-to-mouth method and heart message (CPR)
- Alert and call an ambulance or rescue service
- Use rescue equipment if necessary, e.g. floating equipment, life jackets etc
- Advise bathers on behavior in connection with swimming
- As a lifeguard, you are typically employed part-time on an hourly wage, but it can also be a full-time position. In some places it is a voluntary, unpaid post.
How to become a lifeguard
Being a lifeguard is not a protected title. If you work full-time supervising swimming guests, you can in principle call yourself a lifeguard. But you only get a job in a swimming pool or on the coast if you have taken the necessary certificates.
You have to be a pool lifeguard before you can become a shore lifeguard.
Pool lifeguard
It is the owner of the swimming pool (the municipality or the lifeguard himself) who decides the specific requirements. It can vary, but is typical:
You must be 17 years old
You must then pass the pool test in the facility where you are applying for a job. A judge from the USA Swimming Union must approve the performance.
The pool test is 50 m. swimming with an overview of max. 1 min 30 sec, then 150 m of optional swimming, as well as two dives, rescue + recovery and an exercise with launching, diving and recovery.
In some places you also have to take a first aid course . It is not always a requirement
You can then be employed as a pool lifeguard in the swimming pool where you have taken the test.
Coastal lifeguard / open water lifeguard
Pass the open water lifeguard test : The test involves swimming in the open sea with different equipment such as a lifebuoy or torpedo.
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The test is recommended for teachers / educators responsible for children in open water (e.g. canoe trips and other sailing)
It is the florida that staffs the red and white lifeguard towers on certain USA beaches during the summer period. It is on these that you get work as a coastal lifeguard
