As we are reaching the end of yet another action-packed month across the Victorian lifesaving movement, I continue to be in awe of our members for their tireless dedication and enormous efforts to educating, protecting and supporting our community.…
Month: March 2022
Women have long played a key role in the Victorian lifesaving movement.…
Any given weekend during the summer, Victorians swimming between the red and yellow flags at one of the state’s 57 patrolled locations can be assured they are under the watchful eye of experienced lifesavers.…
When LSV took its nippers beach program and adapted it to an inland waterway setting in 2019 to create bush nippers, it was to instill vital water safety knowledge and skills and help to reduce the drowning rate at …
Children living with disability from four specialist schools had the opportunity to develop their confidence in the water at Life Saving Victoria’s (LSV’s) inaugural multi-school inclusive beach day at Hampton Life Saving Club (LSC).…
Life Saving Victoria’s best senior athletes put on a spectacle at Warrnambool Surf Life Saving Club this weekend for the Victorian Championships. …
Blended Aquatic Technical Operators’ course
Life Saving Victoria’s (LSV) new two-day blended aquatic technical operators’ course is a must for pool owners and industry personnel as well as pool lifeguards and swimming teachers looking for progression.
The course meets the …
An unintended consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was the beginning of Australia’s great resignation. This was the prediction that people would voluntarily leave their current job, as they rethink their career, work life balance, priorities and long-term goals. This phenomenon …
Life Saving Victoria is urging the Aquatic Industry to provide feedback and prepare for proposed psychological health amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations).
On 17 May 2021, the Minister for Workplace Safety, Ingrid Stitt MP, …
Life Saving Victoria (LSV) is continuing its commitment to supporting the aquatic industry by boosting swim teacher numbers by offering $104 off swim teacher courses – a dollar discount for every non-fatal drowning incident reported in Victoria in 2020 – …