Swimming and Water Safety
Swimming and water safety education has long been a feature of lifesaving programs in high income countries. These programs are driven by water safety agencies through school and community systems that seek to build skills with dual goals of protecting against drowning and preparing children for safe aquatic recreation activity.
The value of such a program has been in constant scientific debate. In recent years their role as part of comprehensive prevention programs has been acknowledged, with programs such as SwimSafe Bangladesh showing a significant impact in reducing drowning deaths.
The Swimming and Water Safety stream covered the following areas:
- Advances in swimming and water safety
- Learning and education programs
- Research and program evaluation
- Catering for diversity in geography, demography, socio economic, ethnicity, gender and climate.
The conference facilitated an informative mix of research, policy and practice in the area of swimming and water safety. Practitioners, particularly those working in this field, benefitted from the program that highlighted best practice, networking with researchers and practitioners alike, and the presention of their work for review by their peers.
The Swimming and Water Safety Stream was proudly sponsored by AUSTSWIM.
Abstracts and Presentations
| Moran, K |
Real and perceived swimming competence among young adults in New Zealand: The Can You Swim? Project |
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| Bennett, E |
Everyone Swims: Changing policies to increase access to swimming lessons and water recreation |
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| Griffiths, T |
The 'Note and Float' drowning prevention program |
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Stanley, T
Taylor, J
Calhaem, I |
Pools 2 Schools Pilot: A journey of participation, partnership, performance, and pleasure |
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| Cox, R |
The use of portable pools to increase swim learning: The SwimSafe Danang Experience |
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Carmont, T
Stewart, J
Le Thi Thu, V |
Hoi An Children's Swimming Program – A sustainable & scalable swimming program in Vietnam |
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| Fonfe, M |
The Sri Lanka Women's Swimming Project |
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Graham, D
Mecrow, T |
The Nile Swimmers Project: Reducing the burden of drowning on the River Nile, and building peace |
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| Moran, K |
The 'Can You Swim?' Project: An international feasibility study of real and perceived swimming competency in the context of drowning prevention |
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| Blitvich, J |
Real and perceived swimming competence among young adults in Australia: The Can You Swim? Project |
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Goya, T
Matsui, A
Teramoto, K
Shimonagata, S
Moran, K |
Real and perceived swimming ability, perceptions of drowning risk among Japanese university students |
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| Stallman, R |
Perceived versus real aquatic competence: the 'Can You Swim' project |
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| Stallman, R |
A graded approach to a definition of ‘Can Swim’ |
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| Ayton, T |
Incorporation home pool safety into mainstream lesson programming |
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| Barnett, H |
A behavioral approach to pediatric drowning prevention |
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| Claridge, M |
Swim For Life – The full scale promotion and coordination of swim and survive in New Zealand |
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Douglas, B
Folley, N |
uswim.com - Free online swimming lessons from a world leading swim school |
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| Gage, R |
Swim Australia's SwimSAFER program: Two years on... |
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| Gambardella, C |
SwimSafer, Have fun, Swim Safe |
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| Hindmarch, T Melbye, M |
Good swimmers drown more often than non-swimmers: How openwater swimming could feature in beginner swimming |
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| Hodges, S |
Study into the Swimming abilities of ACT primary school students |
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| Kharrat, M |
Near drowning detection system based on swimmer's physiological information analysis |
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| Stallman, R |
The validity of a 1000m distance test as a predictor of swimming competence & The validity of swimming speed as a predictor of swimming competence |
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| Laosee, O |
Predictors of swimming ability of primary school children in rural communities in Thailand |
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| Marks, K |
30 Years of Australian Swimming and Water Safety Education |
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| Marks, K |
The international language of swimming |
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Matsui, A
Goya, T
Moran, K |
History of swimming education at school in Japan which influenced Japanese swimming ability |
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| Millward, R |
Safer facilities or using facilities safely |
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| Pryor, S |
Swimming to a safe place |
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| Rubin, T |
Portable pools and the SwimSafe Thailand experience |
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| Saitoh, H |
Spread of survival technique 'chakuiei' in Japan |
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| Savage, M |
Delivering Professional Development in a technological age |
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| Schulte-Huelsmann, L |
Learn to swim with DLRG and Nivea A pre-school swimming education project of DLRG in cooperation with the support of the company Beiersdorf (Nivea) |
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| Stanley, T |
Whanau Nui – Free family swimming and water safety lessons |
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| Veldhuyzen, C |
AUSTSWIM – Providing quality training in any language and culture |
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| Abe, J |
New design for sign showing how to prevent drowning at sudden water accident |
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| Avramidis, S |
Qualitative findings from a 3-year baby/preschool swimming training: A two-year case study |
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| Baker, S |
Basic Aquatic Water Skill |
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| Kjendlie, P |
Water safety education is more than teaching swimming skills: Comprehensive drowning prevention education |
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| Kusyanto, B |
Swim to Survive – supporting rural aboriginal and farming communities |
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| Madsen, L |
Observation skills in water competence learning processes – a didactic challenge |
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| Standley, D |
Hari’s World/Hari at the Beach |
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| Seghers, G |
Proposed new warning graphical symbols for buoyancy aids |
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| Stallman, R |
A Norwegian model of swimming competency |
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| Stallman, R |
Bridging the gap – the transition between pool and open water: A pedagogical drowning prevention approach |
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| Tamura, Y |
Sea survival training carried out at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology |
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| Villasante, B |
Manual for the prevention of drowning and water accidents in Mexico |
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| Vervaecke, H |
Car in water |
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| Robinson, R |
Jabari – balancing joy and safety in the water for children |
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