Bronze Medallion Camp

+ Course Details

• Course dates: Sunday 8th December - Saturday 14th December 2024

• Location: Woolamai Beach SLSC

• Cost: $475

• Course is held over 1 week, with assessments on the final day

• Participants will reside, train and be evaluated at Woolamai Beach Surf Life Saving Club clubhouse, end of Woolamai Beach Road, Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island

• Course cost includes use of facilities, camp food, training, evaluation, season membership and commemorative course shirt

• Not included: bathers, wetsuit, fins

• Bring: bathers, wetsuit, surf fins, sunscreen

• Participants will have an opportunity to purchase specialist surf fins at a discount thanks to Island Surf (budget approximately $60)

+ Pre-requisites

• You must be at least 15 years of age on the date of final assessment. 13-14 year olds can register for our [Surf Rescue Certificate course][1]
• You must be able to swim 400m in under 9 minutes in a pool of at least 25m in length, or over a measured open water course, prior to undertaking any water training or assessment activities
• Qualifying swim to be held at a Melbourne eastern suburb and Wonthaggi pool. Dates TBC [1]: https://www.woolamaibeach.org.au/src-course

+ Course Outcomes

• Contribute to the management of work health and safety (WHS)
• Follow workplace procedures for hazard identification and risk control
• Describe surfing and environmental conditions and hazards
• Recognise appropriate beach types, conditions and areas in the surfzone for bathing
• Demonstrate surf skills
• Explain the functions of various systems in the human body
• Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques
• Perform basic resuscitation techniques (oxygen therapy, defibrillation)
• Identify basic patient management techniques
• Communicate in the workplace
• Perform radio communications using approved SLSA radios
• Perform patient approaches, support and escapes aided by equipment on a conscious and an unconscious patient
• Identify people in distress in an aquatic environment
• Perform surf skills
• Perform patient retrieval and support unaided by equipment
• Set up a patrol and describe your role on patrol
• Demonstrate standard patrol practices
• Work as part of a team
• Improve fitness

+ Qualifications

• SLSA Award: Bronze Medallion

+ Skills Maintenance

• The Bronze Medallion Award is the key award to become a Surf Lifesaver in Australia and must be re-qualified every year at a Skills Maintenance day run by:
  • Woolamai Beach SLSC
  • Another Lifesaving Club
  • Lifesaving Victoria
• To learn more about how to requalfy this award, please click Here