178Additional control—dive plan

178  Additional control—dive plan  (1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must not direct or allow general diving work to be carried out unless a dive plan for the dive:  (a) is prepared by a competent person appointed under regulation 177; or  (b) has been prepared by a competent person appointed under regulation 177 on an earlier occasion for a similar dive. 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.  (2) A dive plan must state the following:  (a) the method of carrying out the diving work to which it relates;  (b) the tasks and duties of each person involved in the dive;  (c) the diving equipment, breathing gases and procedures to be used in the dive;  (d) as applicable, dive times, bottom times and decompression profiles;  (e) hazards relating to the dive and measures to be implemented in the control of risks associated with those hazards;  (f) emergency procedures.