Awarding Body

Royal Life Saving Society UK

Scheme

Open Water Lifeguard 2017

Course

Assessment

Type

Assessment

Award Description

Open Water Lifeguard (OWL) Qualification

Open water swimming is one of the fastest-growing sports in the UK. The OWL qualification has been specifically designed to equip Open Water Lifeguards with the skills required to supervise and provide rescue cover for planned, organised and risk assessed activities in still or non-tidal water.

If you’d like to learn more about being an Open Water Lifeguard, click here.

The OWL course requires a minimum of 18 hours of training followed by a practical assessment.

Course Pre-Requisites:

Every candidate attending an OWL course must: 

• Be 16-years-old or over at the time of assessment
• Be competent and confident in open water
• Be able to submerge under the water confidently
• Be able to swim at least 400 metres in a pool/open water, swimming continuously on their front and showing urgency.

Course Content:

There are three sections to the course, and a candidate must pass all three to attain the qualification.

Section 1 – The Open Water Lifeguard, environment, hazards and supervision
Section 2 – Responding to an emergency and taking action
Section 3 – CPR and First Aid

Every candidate attending a OWL course must: 

• Be 16-years-old or over at the time of assessment
• Be competent and confident in open water
• Be able to submerge under the water confidently
• Before the course, candidates must be able to swim at least 400 metres in a pool/ open water swimming continuously on their front and show urgency.

Current National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) holders can use RPL* from their NPLQ and attend a one-day RPL OWL qualification course, which will include an assessment by an OWL Assessor if successful they will be awarded an OWL qualification valid for 2 years.

RPL New candidates: 7hrs + Assessment

*Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is the process of recognising a candidate’s previous achievement towards part of a qualification.

All candidates must have a wet suit to be able to participate on the course, and must provide suitable clothing to keep dry whilst on the side throughout the course. Wet suits are available to hire from the facility should it be required. 

The facility does have suitable showers, and changing facilities as well as good parking and catering facilities.

Start

29/03/2024 09:00

End

31/03/2024 17:00

Total Days

3

Maximum Bookings

12

Bookings

11

Venue

Liverpool Watersports Centre

Town

Liverpool

County

Merseyside

Postcode

L3 4DG

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.39269

Longitude

-2.98553

Name

SG Training Solutions Ltd

Phone

07837099238

Email