City Of Geraldton-Greenough Aquarena Pass Street, Geraldton WA 6530 Any Enquires Phone: 9921 8844 Fax: 9921 8855 Email:

Watch Around Water is an education and awareness raising campaign run throughout public aquatic facilities in Western Australia. The campaign was developed to address growing industry concern regarding the supervision of children whilst visiting aquatic facilities. Watch Around Water takes a comprehensive approach to promotingand encouraging adequate supervision of children by parents and appropriate centre policies and practices.

The aims of the Watch Around Water campaign are to:

• Provide state-wide supervision standards and practices

• Increase lifeguard skills

• Raise awareness of and provide knowledge to parents of what constitutes appropriate levels of supervision of children

• Increase the proportion of parents who effectively supervise their children while in the water

• Reduce incidents of drowning, near drowning and associated injury
   

Watch Around Water is a joint initiative between Royal Life Saving Australia's Western Australian branch (RLSSWA) and the Leisure Institute of Western Australia Aquatics (LIWA).

        

Parents MUST be in the water with UNDER 5'S

For further information on water safety click here to go to the Royal Life Saving website