Safety Training for Swim Coaches

Safety Training for Swim Coaches pairs hazard-prevention lessons with a three-hour in-water skills check, meeting USA Swimming and Y USA rules and issuing a two-year Red Cross card.

Created with USA Swimming experts, this blended course gives deck-side leaders the tools to run safer practices and prove compliance. The self-paced online module reviews safe-sport policies, weather alerts, emergency action planning, crowd control, non-swimming rescues, and first-aid care for spinal injuries, bleeds, heat illness, and respiratory problems on land or at the pool edge. Candidates then attend a three-hour instructor-led session in chest-deep water to demonstrate compact entries, reaching and throwing assists, passive deep-water assists, and spinal-motion control with backboard straps. Successful coaches earn the American Red Cross Safety Training for Swim Coaches certificate, valid for two years and accepted nationwide by USA Swimming, Y USA, and most insurers to satisfy Coaches Safety Education requirements. This card is issued via the Blended pathway and carries the same credential.