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Lifesaving Courses
Our courses teach essential aquatic first aid and rescue techniques, providing a practical and safe approach.
Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, these classes are the perfect opportunity to gain vital knowledge to intervene safely. Join us and become a qualified lifeguard!
2025
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Courses
Lifesaving Courses
Lifesaving Instructor
Registration Code: AQ2107
Share your experience and communicate your passion for lifesaving by becoming a Lifesaving Instructor. You will train future lifeguards by teaching them first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the various techniques and skills required in lifesaving. A Lifesaving Instructor can teach the following awards:
- Bronze Star;
- Bronze Medallion;
- Bronze Cross;
- Along with several other courses.
Cost
Free thanks to the agreement with the ministère de l’Éducation.
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Aquatics
General First Aid
Registration Code: AQ6001
Prerequisite for the National Lifeguard course.
With this comprehensive training, you will easily recognize abnormal signs and symptoms and be able to apply the necessary emergency measures. This course will teach you how to provide specific treatments in order to immobilize an injury, to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) and to administer adrenalin with an auto-injector. You will also learn to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on an adult, a child and an infant, and how to react in case of a respiratory emergency or a cardiac arrest. Numerous others topics are developed, such as how to treat wounds, various injuries, burns and allergic reactions, how to care for a victim in shock and how to intervene in environment-related emergencies.
Cost
- Free thanks to the agreement with the ministère de l’Éducation
- Fees, however, for the pocket mask ($17). The manual is free.
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Lifesaving Courses
National Lifeguard
Registration Code: AQ2105
The National Lifeguard award is a national performance standard and the only award recognized throughout Canada that allows its holder to work as a lifeguard anywhere in the country. The course has been developed to better understand lifeguarding principles and develop good judgment and a responsible attitude regarding the lifeguard’s responsibilities in an aquatic facility. You can specialize in the following four options: pool, waterpark, waterfront, and surf.
Holders of a National Lifeguard award are entitled to work as lifeguards as soon as they reach age 16.
Minimum time required
- 40 hours for the pool option (excluding final evaluation)
- 20 hours for the other options (if the candidate holds a National Lifeguard – Pool award)
Prerequisites
- To be at least 15 years old at the final evaluation
- To hold a Bronze Cross award
- To hold a Standard First Aid/AED or an Aquatic Emergency Care/AED award
- For the Waterpark option: to hold a National Lifeguard – Pool award
- For the Surf option: to hold a National Lifeguard – Waterfront award
Award validity
Valid for 2 years if used as work permit.
Source: sauvetage.qc.ca
Cost
- Free thanks to the agreement with the ministère de l’Éducation
- Fees, however, for the whistle ($6) and the pocket mask ($17). The manual is free.
Check the detailed schedule grid of the current or upcoming session