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Verify Certifications Online. Lifeguard-Pro leads the Lifeguard industry with the first online international certification verification database. Governments, health departments, employers, insurance companies, and cardholders love that they can, from anywhere in the world, immediately and conveniently verify the status and authenticity of any Lifeguard-Pro certification card. Simply click VERIFY, enter in the unique number on the certification card, and instantly verify the certification card and expiration date. Our online international certification database eliminates the employers’ administrative burden of verifying Lifeguard certifications, and significantly reduces the employers’ liability from lapsed and fraudulent certification cards. 

Protects Employers & Public from Fraud

Comprehensive Online Preparatory Home-Study Course. Lifeguard-Pro is the first internationally recognized Lifeguard certification agency to offer a comprehensive, online, preparatory Home-Study Course for Lifeguard certification.  Complete your university-style Home-Study Course online. Then, attend an ultra-convenient In-Person Training Session to learn and demonstrate your physical Lifeguard skills. Our Home-Study Course is based on the American Heart Association blended course, which allows students to complete all academic requirements for certification online, prior to attending the course required In-Person Training Session. Our new, ultra-convenient Lifeguard training model is the way of the future.

Making Aquatics Safety Training More Convenient

Complies with All U.S. National Lifeguard Standards & Procedures.  Our professional Lifeguard training program incorporates all the top U.S. Lifeguard standards and procedures. But, Lifeguard-Pro goes well beyond the minimum U.S. national standards. We also teach the most effective and leading-edge Lifeguard skills and practices to ensure that our Lifeguards are always better prepared to prevent and respond to emergencies. All our CPR, First Aid and Blood Bourne Pathogens certification courses fully comply with international AHA standards & procedures.

Elevating the Lifeguard Training Standard

Advanced Specialty Rescue Training.  Employers and students alike benefit from advanced Lifeguard specialty training. Lifeguard-Pro offers more Lifeguard training specialty courses (e.g., Shallow Pool (max depth 5 ft.), Swimming Pool (max depth 12 ft.), Deep Pool (max depth 20 ft.), Waterfront, Water Park, and Youth Camp) than any other nationally recognized Lifeguard training company. Lifeguard-Pro’s leading-edge specialty training courses ensure our Lifeguards are better trained and more capable of preventing & responding to emergencies.

Specialized Training is Better Risk Management

More Modern, More Comprehensive, and More Convenient. Lifeguard-Pro certification courses have improved upon the old, outdated style Lifeguard certification courses of yester-year. Lifeguard-Pro Lifeguard certification program:

1. Is based on decades of REAL LIFE professional rescue experience, and updated frequently to better promote national public safety;
2. Incorporates the industry's first online university-style Home-Study Course to make vital aquatics public safety training more available -- More public safety training saves lives;
3. Includes more advanced specialty Lifeguard certification courses to enhance national public safety (e.g., Lifeguard-Deep Pool, Lifeguard-Waterfront, Lifeguard-Youth Camp, and Lifeguard-Water Park) -- Advanced specialty training makes better Lifeguards;
4. Includes the first ever advanced specialty Lifeguard-Youth Camp certification course to better protect our children -- Lifeguard-Pro protects the lives of countless children across the country and around the world;
5. Demands Lifeguard certification courses are taught only by professional rescuers to ensure the highest quality learning experience -- Life saving safety training should be taught by professionals;
6. Refuses to allow laypersons or volunteers to teach Lifeguard courses to make ourselves more money at the expense of national public safety -- The public deserves effective life saving training delivered by professionals;
7. Is all taught in full compliance with the American Heart Association international teaching standards for professional rescue courses;
8. Provides undeniably more comprehensive and extensive academic training for a superior learning experience -- More thoroughly trained Lifeguards means better public safety;
9. Created the Lifeguard industry's first online public database to verify every Lifeguard-Pro Lifeguard certification, which reduces the risk of cardholder fraud and forgery -- Fraudulent and forged Lifeguard certifications threaten the national public safety; and,
10. Unlike the old, outdated style Lifeguard certification courses of yester-year that require Lifeguard certification renewal every two or three years, Lifeguard-Pro requires every Lifeguard certification to be fully retested and renewed annually -- More frequent life saving training enhances the national public safety.

Lifeguard-Pro believes our national public safety deserves high-quality life saving training conducted by professionals, which is conveniently available to all that require such safety training -- The public agrees!  That is why governments, employers, insurance companies, and Lifeguards are moving away from the old, outdated Lifeguard certification course and  Water Safety Instructor (WSI) certification course, and choosing the more modern, more comprehensive, and ultra-convenient training program -- Lifeguard-Pro!

National Compliance Statement for Lifeguard Training. Lifeguard-Pro is nationally & internationally recognized and offers perhaps the world's most accepted Lifeguard certifications. Lifeguard-Pro is widely regarded as the New World Leader in Water Safety & Rescue Certification Courses. 

Lifeguard-Pro Certifications are:

• Accepted in all 50 U.S. States
• Accepted in all U.S. Territories
• Approved by the U.S. Navy for Worldwide Use
• Accepted by the U.S. Military for Use at U.S. Military Bases around the World
• Accepted by United Nations Multi-National Peace-Keeping Forces for Use at Military Bases around the World
• Previously Recognized by American Camp Association (ACA) for Use by Youth Camps across America
• Used by Police Departments, Fire Departments, and Professional Rescues across the Country
• Used by Public Schools, Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities around the World
• Used by Governments of States, Counties, Cities, and Towns
• Used by Prominent National Organizations such as YMCA, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of America, Easterseals, American Diabetes Foundation, Christian Camps Association, Jewish Camps Association, and many more!
• Used by Beaches, Pools, Water Parks, Swim Schools, Swim Coaches, Parks & Recreations Departments, and many more!

The Lifeguard-Pro Lifeguard certification course should be accepted everywhere the American Red Cross Lifeguard course is accepted because the Lifeguard-Pro Lifeguard course includes all the knowledge and all the physical skills included in the American Red Cross Lifeguard course.

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