New Bronze Recert Test Sheets Society Releases 2021 Drowning Report

Currents Newfoundland Labrador June 2021

New Bronze Recert test sheets Society releases 2021 Drowning

The Society has standardized Medallion and Cross Recertification Report exams by designating mandatory – and only – items to be Drowning fatalities have declined nearly 50% over the past five evaluated. Instructors/Examiners should use the new (2020) years according to the Society’s most recent Newfoundland and Recertification test sheets when submitting Medallion and Cross Labrador Drowning Report, but the causes and demographics recertification candidates for the new Bronze medal awards. remain the same. Boating is the most common activity when drowning occurs, and not wearing a lifejacket is the largest Test sheets for the new Bronze awards are now available in Find a contributing factor. Males continue to account for 93% of Form on our website. drowning deaths in the province.

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Endurance challenge – 400 m or yd. or m 400 – challenge Endurance Rescue drill: recover submerged victim submerged recover drill: Rescue

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This test sheet for Recertification birth of Date exam candidates only. Side 1: Please record each candidate’s Location: name, and contact information accurately. Year Prerequisites: 1 Month Name BronzePostal Medallion Code Day Bronze Cross Date earned: Address RecertificationPhone (Revised 2020) City Location: This test sheet for RecertificationYear exam E-mail candidates only. Month Prerequisites: 2 Side 1: Please record each candidate’s Self-rescue Defences and releases Submerged victim recovery Endurance challenge – 400 m or yd. Rescue 1: from land Rescue 2: open water Rescue 3: non-breathing victim Name Postal Code name and contact information accurately. Prerequisites checked 5912 15 17 18 19 Day Bronze Cross Date earned: Address 1 Phone Name City Year Location: Address Year Month E-mail City Postal Code Prerequisites: 3 Month Prerequisites: Name E-mail Postal Code Phone Day Bronze Medallion Date earned: Location: 2 Day Bronze Cross Date earned: Address Name Phone Year City Address Year Location: Month Prerequisites: City Postal Code E-mail Prerequisites: 4 Month E-mail Phone Day Bronze Medallion Date earned: Location: Name Postal Code 3 Day Bronze Cross Date earned: Address Name Phone Year Address City Year Location: Month City Postal Code Prerequisites: E-mail Month Prerequisites: 5 E-mail Phone Day Bronze Medallion Date earned: Location: Name 4 Postal Code Name Day Bronze Cross Date earned: Address Phone Year Address Location: City Year Month Prerequisites: Location: Total Fail City Postal Code for Exam E-mail Total Pass Month DayPrerequisites: Location: E-mail Phone Bronze Bronze Medallion Medallion Date Date earned: earned: - Fail for Exam 6 Original: X Name 5 Postal Code Name Day YearRecert:Bronze Cross Bronze Cross Date earned: -Date Satisfactory earned: Performance Address Phone ID# Address City Month City Postal Code Prerequisites: Individual who examined the candidates

E-mail E-mail Phone Day Bronze Medallion Date earned: Location: Check6 box if there are more candidates on the reverse side of this page. Examiner’s name Name This is Page of Pages. ()Year Signature InvoicingAddress Information E-mail address Month Prerequisites: City Postal Code () Thank you to all who attended the Society’sTelephone May 15 AGM. HostE-mail name (Affiliate or Organization paying the exam fees)Phone TelephoneDay Bronze Medallion Date earned: Location: Postal code Check box if there are more candidates on the reverse side of this page. Total Pass Total Fail - Satisfactory Performance X - Fail for Exam for Exam If you missed it,Street address Thisyou is Page can of Pages.findProv. the 2020 Newfoundland and Invoicing Information Individual who examined the candidates City () Labrador ReportHostExam name Information on(Affiliate or Organizationour paying homepage. the exam fees) Telephone Examiner’s name ID# Retain one copy for your records. Do not send cash by mail. DD () Street address E-mail address Exam date: YY MM Telephone () City Prov. Postal code Telephone Signature Return completed test sheet to the Lifesaving Society Branch Office promptly after the exam. ExamFacility Information name (e.g., name of pool)

Exam date: YY MM DD () Facility name (e.g., name of pool) Telephone Return completed test sheet to the Lifesaving Society Branch Office promptly after the exam. Retain one copy for your records. Do not send cash by mail. Water-related death data is extracted from the office of the Chief Coroner or Medical Examiner for each province and territory. instructor Data is collected for all deaths resulting from incidents “in, on or near” water. “Near water” incidents were included if the intent was closely related to water-based recreational, vocational or daily living activity. The data includes only unintentional deaths, not deaths due to natural causes, suicide, or homicide. Newfoundland and labrador report 2020 We gratefully acknowledge the support, co-operation and efforts of the Chief Coroner’s and Medical Examiner’s Offices in each province/territory, who permitted and facilitated confidential access to coroner’s reports on unintentional water-related deaths; and the volunteers who contributed time and energy to extract data from the files.

Lifesaving Society Newfoundland and Labrador • 11 Austin Street, PO Box 8065, Station A, St. John’s, NL A1B 3M9 • Tel: 709.576.1953 • Fax: 709.738.1475 • [email protected] • www.lifesavingnl.ca Canada is well placed to achieve all (and more) of the voluntary UN Resolution on Drowning actions that the Resolution encourages Members States to adopt. Prevention All the key World Health Organization recommended interventions are addressed across Canada. The United Nations General Assembly adopted its first Resolution The Lifesaving Society Canada is a well-developed national lead on Drowning Prevention on April 28, 2021. This is a significant agency for lifesaving and drowning prevention. And Canada is milestone in a long journey in which Canadians have played a key positioned to support international cooperation by sharing lessons role. learned and best practices. In fact, our leadership has already The UN resolution focuses world attention and action on this contributed to this milestone through collaboration with the highly preventable public health challenge. The resolution will World Health Organization, International Life Saving Federation, increase UN agency awareness and actions to reduce drowning. the Commonwealth Royal Life Saving Society and with drowning The resolution will also encourage the engagement of national prevention intervention projects in Bangladesh and the Caribbean. governments to reduce the burden of drowning through effective The resolution is the result of years of work by many people and policies and legislation, research, and support for community- organizations in the global drowning prevention community. You based drowning prevention action. can access the Resolution in multiple languages here. The UN Resolution: • is in response to deep concern that drowning has been the cause of over 2.5 million preventable deaths in the past decade but has been largely unecognised relative to its July 18-24, 2021 impact. • notes that more than 90% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, with Asia carrying the highest National Drowning burden of drowning deaths by number. Prevention Week • notes that drowning disproportionately affects children and adolescents in rural areas, with many countries reporting LIFESAVING SOCIETY drowning as the leading cause of childhood mortality. • clarifies that the official global estimate of 235,000 deaths per annum excludes drownings attributable to flood-related climatic events and water transport incidents, resulting in the underrepresentation of drowning deaths by up to 50 per cent in some countries. • identifies July 25 as World Drowning Prevention Day starting in 2021.

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In 2020, the Lifesaving Society prepared a guide to support its affiliate members and leadership personnel who plan to augment traditional in-person training with online or blended learning delivery of the Society's courses. This guide confirms which Lifesaving Society courses are approved for online and/or blended learning. The online portion of all courses currently approved should be “synchronous.” This means live instructor-led education and engagement using the high-quality resources developed by the Lifesaving Society. Candidates should actively participate in their learning, have the ability instructor to ask and answer questions in real-time, and learn from their peers and receive feedback on their performance. Instructors and trainers should provide candidates with every opportunity to apply, to demonstrate, and to practice what they know and are learning. “Asynchronous” indicates a self-directed learning experience with no instructor present – like a reading assignment completed outside the online environment. Instructors of online or blended courses may use asynchronous methodology to augment, but not replace instructor-led sessions. Self-directed activities should be assigned sparingly and with a clear purpose directly related to the course learning objectives. Instructors must “take up” offline assignments to reinforce the desired learning outcomes. Please note that the recommended course times found in the current edition of the Program Guide are based on instructor-led activities, either online or in person. Self-directed activities are not included in the course time allocations.

Do the math. Broaden your base

As they plan for reopening, many aquatic programmers are worried about not having enough qualified staff and Covid may have made things worse. We analysed our award statistics to find the formula required to produce instructors and lifeguards. If you think of Swim Instructors and National Lifeguards as the top of their respective pyramids, it is clear that without a broader base of Bronze certified candidates, we will continue to suffer staff shortages. This may not be the only cause, but it is something all of us can take action on. Visit our website for more information on running Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross courses.

6 + 5 = 1 3 + 2 = 1

On average, it takes 6 Bronze Medallion and On average, it takes 3 Bronze Medallion and 5 Bronze Cross candidates to produce 1 new Swim Instructor. 2 Bronze Cross candidates to produce 1 new National Lifeguard.

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