Lifeguarding

National Lifeguard - Waterpark

National lifeguard - Waterpark

National Lifeguard certification is Canada's professional lifeguard standard. National Lifeguard Waterpark provides advanced training to develop the lifeguarding skills, principles and practices, and the decision-making processes which will assist the lifeguard to provide effective safety supervision in waterpark environments. It builds on the fundamental values, judgment, knowledge, skills and fitness acquired in the NLS Pool certification. Fitness requirements include a deep-water spinal carry and a 15 m approach and carry.

Successful candidates are certified by the Lifesaving Society - Canada's lifeguarding experts.

View all NLS Waterpark test items: NLS Waterpark - At-a-glance

Prerequisite: National Lifeguard Pool certification (need not be current).

Lifesaving Factoid

In 1894, Arthur Lewis Cochrane, who had emigrated from England, was made the Lifesaving Society's Honorary Representative in Canada. Through Cochrane's efforts with a small group of like-minded citizens, the first Canadian Branch of the Society was established in Ontario in 1908. The formation of the Quebec Branch followed in 1909 and Branches were formed in other provinces soon afterwards.

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