With summer approaching, Kidsafe’s annual ‘Safe Barriers Saves Lives’ campaign, which calls on pool and spa owners to check the safety of their barriers, has been launched and this year’s key message is ‘the best offence is a good defence’.…
Category: Pool Safety
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has prepared draft regulations that aim to prevent young children drowning in private swimming pools and spas through improving compliance with safety barrier requirements.
DELWP has prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement …
Venus Bay Surf Life Saving Club has been named JLT Club of the Year at Life Saving Victoria’s annual Awards of Excellence.
It is the third time the club has won the coveted Beaurepaire Shield, which recognises outstanding achievements in …
Life Saving Victoria (LSV) has taken another step in its commitment to improving safety standards at Victoria’s public pools, by turning-on the newly created Public Pools Register.
“The Register is an online document, open to the public, which allows pool …
Royal Life Saving Society of Australia (RLSSA), on behalf of the National Aquatic Industry Safety Committee (NAISC), has launched the National Aquatic Industry Workforce Survey and is seeking feedback from those involved in the aquatic industry workforce.
The …
Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp officially launched the Safer Public Pools – Code of Practice at the seventh annual pool safety summit, held last week at Life Saving Victoria.
“The aim of the Code is to provide practical guidance to …
The Victorian Aquatic Industry made a splash at the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia (RLSSA) National Aquatic Industry Safety Awards recently, by winning three out of six possible awards.
YMCA Casey RACE in Cranbourne East, Leisurelink in Geelong, and …
A ten-year study by Royal Life Saving Society Australia into drownings at aquatic facilities revealed that more work is needed to enforce the messages around active parental supervision of young children.
The research report, titled ‘A 10-Year Analysis of Drowning …
A full day of discussions around safeguarding Victorians around pools was recently held at the sixth annual Victorian Pool Safety Summit at the Lifeguards@200 venue, located at the Port Melbourne headquarters of Life Saving Victoria (LSV).
Over 200 members of …
Royal Life Saving is urging parents across Victoria not to be complacent about their child’s safety around water.
Latest Royal Life Saving research shows that 461 children under the age of five died due to drowning in Australia over the …