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This link will introduce you to the lifeguard test. Click the link on the video on this page and get introduced to the test.

To work as a lifeguard, you must – prior to employment – have passed DSF’s commercial lifeguard test described below. The swimming pool will assist you in acquiring the test.

Description of the lifeguard test

1) Facility
The lifeguard trainee reviews the safety measures of the facility.
Including the following:

• Alarm and evacuation plans.
• Location of resuscitation safety equipment including oxygen equipment, defibrillator, Spineboard etc.
• Special safety precautions such as see-saws, slides, climbing walls, towers, etc.
• Safety precautions when handling chemicals including chlorine and acid.

2) Bass part

1. Diving from the edge of the pool, followed by 200 meters of free swimming, where you have to maintain control in the last 50 meters, maximum time: 1 min. 30 seconds in the last 50 meters. Either breaststroke or water polo crawl must be used.
2. Two consecutive dives from treading water to the pool bottom after a rescue dummy. There can be a maximum of 30 seconds pause before the first dive and between dives.
3. Rescuing a panicked person with aids, possibly with a rescue torpedo, stretcher or other flotation device. No unnecessary pauses on the edge for the rescue.
4. 1 release hold, 5 meter rescue of panicked swimmer, followed by 10 meter rescue of unconscious person to shore, and picking up media in cooperation with helper. Then start step-by-step first aid for unconscious people with normal breathing.
5. Within 1 minute after exercise 4, perform the following, jumping from the edge of the pool followed by an inclined dive to a salvage dummy placed 10 meters from the jump point at the deepest point of the pool. Retrieval and picking up media is done alone, without a helper. Preparing for step-by-step first aid for a drowning adult with the hall’s equipment, arriving 1 minute after the helper is alerted. First aid with a helper and the hall’s equipment must be performed for a minimum of 3 minutes. The trainee must operate the hall equipment.
6. Directly after completing CPR with the hall’s equipment for adults, CPR is shown to either infant or junior, and 3 questions are asked in general first aid, such as sudden illness or injury.

In addition, the trainee must have knowledge of: Artificial respiration in water – breaths are most easily given at the edge or depths where the rescuer can bottom. Must be able to use the Spineboard to pick up or handle a jumper with a neck injury in collaboration with a helper.

Only 1 person can be judged at a time.

The lifeguard test can only be taken by swimming pool staff. The sampler must be at least 18 years old.

The lifeguard test is a collaboration between the Danish Swimming Pool Technical Association, the Hall Inspectors Association, the Council for Greater Swimming Safety, the Association of Public Employees and the Danish Swimming Union.