154Diving operations record

154 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).

(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) The 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 diving contractor's name and address;

(c) the name of the diving supervisor, or the names of the diving supervisors, 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 person who took part in the operation (whether as a diver or as a member of a dive team);

(f) the name of each person who took part as a diver or stand‑by diver in the operation;

(g) the purpose of the diving operation;

(h) for each diver—the breathing apparatus and breathing mixture used;

(i) 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;

(j) for each diver—the maximum depth reached;

(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 diving plant or equipment 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.

(5) A diving supervisor responsible for a diving operation must sign—

(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