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Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011
172Competence of worker—incidental diving work
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172 Competence of worker—incidental diving work
(1) A person must not carry out incidental diving work unless the person:
(a) has the knowledge and skill referred to in regulation 171A; and
(b) has relevant diving experience; and
(c) is accompanied and supervised in the water by a person who has the competencies referred to in regulation 171.
(2) In this regulation, a person has relevant diving experience if the person has logged at least 15 hours of diving, of which at least 8 hours and 20 minutes were spent diving between 10 metres above and any depth below the maximum depth at which the diving work is to be carried out.