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'Bridging the Gap' 11000kms of coastline coverage
'CPLP' - a new space for cooperation within ILS
'Instituto de Socorros a Naufragos': Past, present and future
'Kia Maanu, Kia Ora - Stay Afloat, Stay Alive': A water safety strategy for Māori in Aotearoa
'Pro-More Security for Sea Men' Association - a pilot project providing recycling training for improving sea fishermen security
12 years of Brazilian Lifesaving Society (SOBRASA): Did we make any difference?
A national lifesaving plan to prevent drowning and injury in New Zealand, 2005 - 2010
A practical approach to identifying and counting cold-water immersion deaths, and assessing associated activities and risks
A proposed framework for developing a plan for research in life saving and water safety
A tale of two park agencies: The role of local and regional government agencies in drowning prevention
An integrated approach to beach lifeguarding and lifeboating
Aquatic facilities - Total Life Saving Service Plan
Are pregnant pool owners receptive to isolation fencing installation?
Are pregnant pool owners trained in infant/child cardiopulmonary resucitation?
Are there any different in retention of BLS and AED skills between younger and older lifeguards?
Are they watching - the SEE (Supervision Evaluation and Enhancement) system
AsNaSA - First Portuguese Life Saving Association: 30 years of lifesaving voluntary work, education and training
AsNaSA Cabo Verde - National Water Safety Association
Basic Water Life Support (BWLS): Reevaluation after 232 courses
Bathtub drowning deaths. New twists on an old problem
Beach Water Safety Management - Ergonomic approach to study lifeguards effectiveness & vigilance
Beach Water Safety Management - Morphodynamic and human parameters from the Israeli mediterranean coast
Big people know best: Changing parental perceptions of toddler water safety
Campaign against drowning of children
Cartoon drowning prevention video - A way to reach children in 8 minutes
Child and adolescent drowning in Portugal
Climate change and drowning
Collection of captured sharks of Recife - Brazil at local life guard group
Comparative analysis of educational programmes
Dangerous waves - Long period swell
Developing a risk assessment model for practical application in the UK
Developing our youth - Securing our future
Didactical reflections considering the development of lifesaving competence in physical education students
Do automated external defibrillators have a place in lifeguarding / lifesaving?
Does the teaching of water safety and swimming reduce the incidence of death by drowning?
DrownBase - Identifying key factors about Maori drowning in New Zealand
Drowning in the developing world: Differences from drowning in rich countries and prevention implications
Drowning in Brazil - 179.000 deaths in 25 years. Are we stepping down?
Drowning in non-protective and blind areas of the beaches
Drowning incident analysis
Drowning risk and prevention in minority communities
Drowning statistics on the basis of press cuttings
Education and training on the Portuguese legislation for Water Safety Quality Standards
Electronic media and teaching software as instruments of modern education in lifesaving
Embracing cultural diversity within Surf Life Saving Australia
Establishment of coastal lifeguard services in Pakistan; the PALS experience
Evidence based standards in lifesaving: A Preliminary Report of the US Lifeguard Standards Coalition
Evidenced Based Process - How to do this in lifesaving
Eye health and vision standards for lifeguards
Factors affecting lifeguard recognition of the submerged victim
Factors associated with open-circuit recreational diving fatalities
Financial funds as fundamental basis to develop lifesaving structures
Fitness requirements for RNLI beach lifeguards operating Rescue Watercraft and Inshore Rescue Boats
Global heating and mortality by drowning
How does the level of knowledge concerning aquatic safety change among school youth after the 'Blue Patrol' educational action
How lifeguards would know the severity, treatment and outcome of drowning on the accident site?
How safe is recreational boating in the UK?
How to choose an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the aquatic environment - Review of selection considerations
ILS Position Statement: Seizure disorders in lifesaving and lifeguarding
ILS: How, Who and What were the impact on Brazil?
IT-Strategy - A didactic challenge in the learning process of lifesaving skills
Impact 11 recommendations World Congress on Drowning 2002
In-water resuscitation - What are the highlights and pitfalls?
Integrated Aquatic Programme (IAP)
International Life Saving Federation Actions since the World Congress on Drowning 2002
International Water Safety and Lifesaving Education by ILS
Is it possible to achieve an International standard for beach safety flags?
Is the efficacy of detecting a drowning patient altered if the person conducting surveillance is a non-swimmer?
Junior and Volunteer Lifeguard: A new concept to help the professional on duty
Junior awards
Knowledge of swimming pool safety among vendors and home pool owners and provision of safety devices and information by vendors
Leadership development within a water safety organisation
Lifesaving Development in Africa
Little lifeguard: How can a project for children and adolescents contribute to the prevention of drowning in Brazil?
Main skills for lifesaving and how to train these skills
Manoeuvres and rescue skills program and rescue with paddleboards and/or rescue boards
Maritime safety and risks prevention in the European Atlantic Coast: Challenges for a transnational cooperation framework
Maximise rescuer safety and effectiveness through pre-rescue communication
Medical helicopter: What are the benefits and pitfalls on drowning?
Moderate sea states do not influence the application of an AED in rigid inflatable rescue boats
NOAA/USLA Rip Current Awareness Campaign
Nonfatal and fatal drownings in recreational water settings - United States, 2001- 2002
Normalizing the abnormal: The efficacy of stress related aquatic instruction and its correlation to drowning prevention
Occupational fitness standards for beach lifeguards
Onshore Storminess Factor (ONSF): A new tool for Regional Beach Hazard Rating (RBHR) and Beach Safety Management (BSM)
Operational Strategy of Portuguese Lifeguards Associations in order to prevent drowning
Piha rescue - 4 years of filming at New Zealand's busiest beach
Pool lifeguarding and surveillance – new technology, friend or foe?
Predicting lifeguard's ability to succeed in real lifesaving situations
Prevention of drowning
Principles of beach risk assessment: A UK perspective
Professional Water Life Saver Course - Level II: a course certified by official Portuguese and European Union Standards
Professional and educational updating
Professional aquatic security and rescue technician course
Proposal of a Certification Qualify Water Safety Program - Do the benefits overcome costs?
Public water safety education through letters to the newspapers
Pulling on the same oars together - we can make a difference
Reg Evaluation of risk factor in beaches
Report of the US National First Aid Science Advisory Board - Evidence based first aid guidelines
Reporting of water safety policy measures in 17 European Countries to advance water safety and reduce childhood drowning
Resuscitation Guidelines 2005 - what's new and why?
Rip currents - A public awareness negligence
Risk management analysis: when, where and how ocean rescue lifeguards are suffering occupational injuries
Risk taking behaviour as a cause of drowning after engagement in swimming and non-aquatic activities
Rock fishers' practice and perception of water safety
SENTINEL - A systematic approach to the early recognitions of drowning
Safety Legislation: A pillar of Drowning Prevention
Safety in public aquatic centres: Lifeguards are not babysitters!
Saving lives through technology
Self instruction in basic life support - Is this the answer to the problem of poor training?
Simulated emergency response training programme
Skill retention in lifesaving: A review of literature and a look to the future
South Africa: The impact of the absence of legislation governing water safety and drowning prevention
Spinal cord injury immobilization in the aquatic environment
State of Hawai'i beach hazard information website
Strategies for open water drowning prevention
Suicide by drowning in Ireland
Surf education - clubs and schools
Surf-Lifeguard pre-employment test
Swim for Life: A multi media campaign promoting learn to swim
Swim to survive
SwimSafe: A community-based water safety and swim-learning program suitable for developing countries
Swimming rescues by Irish police officers
Swimming pool injury data: improvements to lifeguard training
The burden of drowning in Asia: prevalence and risk factors in children
The Australian public coastal safety guidelines
The Bangladesh experience: A developing country's perspective on child drowning prevention
The Dolphin Project - Since 1963, the largest drowning prevention Program in Brazil - 150,000 children trained
The Dr Ian Mackie Medical Fellowship - Facilitating youth involvement in lifesaving
The data related to the drowning problem in South Africa and the implications of this
The development and implementation of two national beach safety signage standards
The importance of a lifeguard response to water related natural disasters
The jet ski as a rescue craft on the beach breaks of Brazil
The potential use of a reward scheme for drowning rescues to study prevention, rescue and resuscitation of drowning cases
The prototype of situational dimensions in aquatic life-saving
The research, development and implementation of UK national guidelines and specifications for coastal public rescue equipment
The role of lifesaving in community development, experiences from Indigenous Australia
The same result for less money?
The story of the IRB - Inflatable Rescue Boat
The teaching of swimming based on a model derived from the causes of drowning
Total Life Saving Service Plan
Trauma in Brazil - 126,000 deaths in 2003. Do we know enough to prevent?
Understanding older persons water safety needs – research and development
Utilising the Sport of Lifesaving to establish a community base within lifesaving organisations
Visual acuity standards for Beach Lifeguards
Water Safety Campaign
Water safety for culturally and linguistically diverse communities: 'Swim for Life' Muslim Aquatic Safety and Recreation
What can science teach us about lifesaving and drowning prevention
World Drowning Report 2007
World Congress on Drowning 2002: Lessons learnt - Research and developments since
Youth work/welfare as a task of lifesaving organisations
Impacts of major water safety campaigns: play it safe by the water 1997 to 2007

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