About Skills Maintenance

 

Each season, every patrolling lifesaver (including instructors and water safety) must complete skills maintenance to maintain currency in their lifesaving awards. This annual process ensures patrolling lifesavers remain proficient in their skills and knowledge.

Point Lonsdale will hold at least one skills maintenance session in December each season for members needing to requal their SRC, Bronze Medallion, IRB Crew and Driver, SSV Operator and ART. Other Geelong region clubs will also hold sessions and you can attend at any club across the state.

ART & First Aid Awards: If you have an ART or First Aid award from within the last three years, you must also complete a Resuscitation (CPR - HLTAID009) course every 12 months for those awards to remain current, as well as attending an ART skills maintenance session (there is no First Aid skills maintenance session).

Point Lonsdale Skills Maintenance (Requal) Date:

(SRC, Bronze Medallion, IRB Crew & Driver, SSV, ART)

  • Sunday 1 December 2024 | Point Lonsdale | 10:00am - 1:00pm

    • Resuscitation (CPR) Course: 8:00am - 9:30am

Geelong Region Skills Maintenance (Requal) Dates:

(SRC, Bronze Medallion, IRB Crew & Driver, SSV, ART)

  • Sunday 10 November 2024 | Bancoora | 10:00am - 1:00pm

    • Resuscitation (CPR) Course: 8:00am - 9:30am

  • Sunday 17 November 2024 | 13th Beach | 10:00am - 1:00pm

    • Resuscitation (CPR) Course: 8:00am - 9:30am (TBC)

  • Saturday 23 November 2024 | Ocean Grove | 10:00am - 1:00pm

    • Resuscitation (CPR) Course: 8:00am - 9:30am

  • Sunday 29 December 2024 | Ocean Grove | 8:00am - 11:00am

Note: You must also complete your e-Learning (online theory) before you attend your practical session.

More details below.

To successfully requal your awards, please follow these steps:

  1. Renew your membership here - you must be an active (financial) member for the 2024/25 season to complete skills maintenance.

  2. Log into LSV Member Training portal (https://mt.lsv.com.au/login/) and click on ‘Skills Maintenance’.

  3. Complete the skills maintenance e-Learning by clicking on ‘Complete E-Learning’, enrolling in the modules for the awards you hold and completing them.

  4. Next, book into a practical session for those awards by clicking ‘Book Practical’. Please only enrol into the session which matches the awards you are maintaining (i.e. do not enrol into an ART session if you do not hold the ART award).

  5. Arrive on time, sign in and attend the practical sessions with your group. You must follow the group you have enrolled in through every activity and stay together.

    (Note: You MUST enrol in the session you attend and complete the e-Learning for the award PRIOR to attending so your skills maintenance can be processed.)

  6. Ensure you are signed off on the iPad for activities you complete and sign out at the end of the session.

If you have any questions about the skills maintenance process, please read our Education FAQs on the PLSLSC Website or email training@plslsc.com.au

I got my award this season, do I need to requal?

  • If you have completed a new award during the current season, you do not need to complete skills maintenance for it.

    • Proficiency obtained on/after 1 July is valid until 31 December the following year.

    • Proficiency obtained on/prior to 30 June is valid until 31 December of the same year.

    • E.g. a Bronze Medallion obtained in October 2024 is current until 31 December 2025.

I haven’t requalled in a while, can I still requal them?

  • You can still requal your SRC, Bronze Medallion, IRB Crew & IRB Driver awards if it has been less than 60 months (5 years) since they were last current.

I got my ART/FA awards three years ago, can I still requal them?

  • ART & First Aid awards cannot be requalled if you attained them three years ago - you need to complete a full ART/FA course again.