Investigators: Sarah Bracchi and Sharon Brasher

In response to growing industry concerns regarding the supervision of children whilst visiting aquatic facilities, Life Saving Victoria is working in partnership with Aquatics & Recreation Victoria to promote and deliver the new Watch Around Water program.

Watch Around Water aims to educate the Victorian public about what adequate supervision is, and to encourage parents/guardians to take on the responsibility for adequately supervising their children while visiting public aquatic facilities.

Watch Around Water has been successfully implemented in facilities in Western Australia and was introduced to South Australia last year. The program is currently being delivered to facilities across Victoria. We are encouraging all aquatic facilities to become involved in the program to work together to help make facilities safer. Support for the Watch Around Water campaign has been provided by the PISBTW campaign.

Watch Around Water Reports

 Watch Around Water Evaluation Report 2008/2009 (132KB)

Life Saving Victoria, along with Aquatics & Recreation Victoria would also like to acknowledge Leisure Institute of WA Aquatics (LIWA) and Royal Life Saving Western Australia who developed this program.

For further information on Watch Around Water and to register for this industry program, please visit Aquatics & Recreation Victoria.