Water Safety Advice For Your BusinessWelcome to our online area dedicated to supporting businesses with water safety advice and support services, including bespoke training, consultancy, qualifications, equipment, and collaborative opportunities. As a charity, our primary interest lies in water safety. Our services offer impartial, honest, cost-effective solutions that best suit your water safety needs and help create a safer environment. PLUS, 100% of all profits from our business support services go into helping us educate more people on how to enjoy water safely. Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is proud to be the UK and Ireland's industry leader in water-related safety qualifications and training for aquatic, open water, and beach operators and be recognised worldwide as an expert in lifeguarding and water safety. We work with an impressive list of national leisure operators and partners - from hotels, spas, and competition pools to leisure centres, aqua parks and open water venues. We have also supported many businesses and landowners in meeting their responsibilities to water safety. Our trusted brand gives peace of mind to businesses and the millions of people who access the facilities and sites we support. Qualifications and Awards Water safety training is essential for any business with employees working on, in, or near water. Every year, we certify more than 60,000 regulated qualifications and non-regulated vocational training awards, including First Aid Essentials and more lifeguards qualify with RLSS UK than any other awarding body! Bespoke Training We support many large organisations and businesses with more bespoke training needs - including the cruise and holiday industries. We can adapt 'off the shelf' RLSS UK qualifications and awards to provide a solution or create new, bespoke training products or packages tailored to your business. Consultancy We are experts at delivering clear and practical consultancy support to any business, organisation or individual with liabilities to visitors and staff around water. Our consultancy work is varied, and we cover a wide range of locations across the UK. For example, in 2023, we completed projects including water safety risk assessments for indoor pools and open water venues, local authorities and private landowners who own/manage bodies of water, as well as water safety audits on the coast. RLSS UK Shop We are also at the forefront of supporting companies in manufacturing and distributing innovative and compliant lifesaving equipment, and the RLSS UK Shop offers official uniforms and training, first aid, and safety equipment for the leisure industry and beyond.To find out how we can help your business, contact us at [email protected]. Trusted by 1,000s of customers such as... < Open Water Services Consultancy Training & Qualifications Lifeguard NWSMP DEFRA First Aid at Work Aqua Parks Essential Water Safety Guidance Swimming Pool Services Consultancy Training & Qualifications Lifeguard First Aid Trainer Assessor Pool Management NRASTC Pool Technology Essential Guidance Hotels and Spa Pools Industry Qualifications Why Choose Us Regulated Qualifications For Your Staff For Your Customers Bespoke Training Deliver our Qualifications Partners Become an Approved Training Centre / Provider Become a Commercial Partner Become a Water Safety Partner RLSS UK Advisors Groundbreaking GLL and RLSS UK Partnership Puts Water Safety At The Heart Of Swim Lessons 16/02/2026 A shared commitment to saving lives and creating communities free from drowning through swimming and water safety education. A new partnership between charitable social enterprise leisure provider GLL and the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), a charity dedicated to the prevention of drowning and the promotion of water safety, as well as being the leader in lifesaving and lifeguarding training across the UK and Ireland, promises to help communities enjoy water safely. As RLSS UK’s first Water Safety Education Partner, GLL - the UK’s largest provider of swimming lessons through its Better Swim School - will embed water safety messages into every lesson using its RLSS UK-endorsed national framework. This pioneering move will see all pupils, from toddlers and school-age children to adults, benefit from essential water safety knowledge and life-saving skills. Emma Lewis, GLL’s National Swimming Development Manager, said: “This new partnership with RLSS UK reinforces GLL's unwavering commitment to water safety and aligns seamlessly with the mission of our Better Swim School programme - the largest in the UK. “Our goal is to ensure that every child in the communities we serve gains essential water safety skills. We believe that learning to swim is about far more than mastering a skill - it is about saving lives, preventing tragedies, and fostering stronger, safer communities.” GLL offers 200,000 adults and children weekly lessons in more than 140 pools across the UK and is focused on upskilling over 2000 Swimming teachers to share water safety messaging and skills. In the UK, 193 people lost their lives to drowning accidents in 2024 (*WAID Data 2024, National Water Safety Forum). Child drowning deaths in England have doubled since 2019/20, with 165 children tragically losing their lives over the past five years (*National Child Mortality Database – NCMD). Yet many accidental drownings are preventable. Effective water safety education plays a vital role in helping people enjoy water safely and know how to respond if they find themselves in danger in or around water. Jo Talbot, Commercial Director for RLSS UK, said: “The skill of swimming alone is not enough to keep someone safe in, on or around water. Water safety education is essential, and it must be accessible to everyone, regardless of background. “As our first water safety education partner, GLL will help us embed vital water safety knowledge and skills into swimming lessons for all ages. “Together, we want every swimmer to be capable, confident, and safe, and we will continue working to make that a reality.” If you are interested in becoming an RLSS UK Water Safety Education Partner, please email [email protected]. Find out about RLSS UK Partnerships Manage Cookie Preferences