175BDiving operations record

175B Diving operations record

(1) A diving supervisor for a diving operation must ensure that a diving operations record for the operation is maintained in the form required by subregulations (2) and (3).

Note: Section 12F of the Act provides that strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under the Act, unless otherwise stated. The reference in section 12F of the Act includes these Regulations.

Penalty: The tier D monetary penalty.

(2) A diving operations record: (a) must be kept in a hard‑covered form bound in such a way that its pages cannot easily be removed; or (b) if it is in a form that has multiple copies of each page, must be bound so that at least one copy of each page cannot easily be removed. (3) The pages of a diving operations record must be serially numbered. (4) A diving supervisor for a diving operation must ensure that an entry is made in the diving operations record for each day when diving for the operation takes place, with the following information about the diving operation on that day: (a) the date to which the entry relates; (b) the name and address of each person conducting a business or undertaking who appointed any diving supervisor for the operation; (c) the name of each diving supervisor who supervised the operation; (d) the location of the diving operation (including, if the diving was done from a vessel or installation, its name); (e) the name of each worker who took part in the operation (whether as a diver or as a member of a dive team); (f) the purpose of the diving operation; (g) for each diver—the breathing apparatus and breathing mixture used; (h) for each diver—the times at which the diver left the surface, reached the bottom, left the bottom and arrived at the surface again, and bottom time; (i) for each diver—the maximum depth reached; (j) for each diver—verification that the diver returned from each of the diver’s dives; (k) the decompression schedule followed including, for each diver, details of the depths and the duration at each depth during decompression; (l) details of any emergency or incident of special note that happened during the operation; (m) details of any decompression illness and any treatment given; (n) details of any significant defect or significant failure of plant for diving used in the operation; (o) details of any environmental factors relevant to the operation; (p) anything else that is likely to affect the health or safety of anybody who took part in the operation.

Note: Section 12F of the Act provides that strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under the Act, unless otherwise stated. The reference in section 12F of the Act includes these Regulations.

Penalty: The tier H monetary penalty.

(5) A diving supervisor for a diving operation must sign in the diving operations record for the operation: (a) either: (i) if the record is in a form that has multiple copies of each page—the original of each page of each entry; or (ii) in any other case—each page of each entry; or (b) if there are 2 or more diving supervisors for the operation—those parts of the entry that relate to diving work that the diving supervisor supervised; and must print the diving supervisor’s name below the signature.