This is the Lesson Plan for the SLGA course on the weekends of 11-12 Oct and 18-19 Oct 2008.
(Booked 2 lanes at Millenium for 13:00 on 18th Oct. Contact is Chris on 477 2000, but changed with Steve Lindsay, GM)
Course Intro
Name game
Intro to Surf Lifesaving, Health & safety, General fitness, Emergency services
Radios & Signals (including practical)
Lunch
Physical environment (waves, rips, tides, weather)
First Aid ( Chain of survival, bleeding, shock, bandaging)
Scenarios ( 4 teams using the beach, radios and bandaging)
Proactive life saving (patrolling setup & shutdown, scanning and victim ID)
First aid (primary assessment and CPR)
Lunch
Surf swim, tube rescue, releases and tows (theory)
Surf swim, tube rescue, releases and tows (practical)
Scenarios (Radios, tubes, swimming, drag up beach, CPR, recovery position)
First Aid - hyper- and hypo thermia, stings, fractures, eyes, choking, allergies & burns)
Pool session (assessment for exam) swim, tubes & releases
Lunch
Stress and debriefing
IRB Familiarisation and rides
Scenarios (radios, first aid, tubes, IRB's anything else I can tink of)
Wrap up
Finishing school Sun 26th Oct Exam Sat 1st Nov