Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 178

    (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 section 177; or

        (b)     has been prepared by a competent person appointed under section 177 on an earlier occasion for a similar dive.

Maximum penalty:

        (a)     in the case of an individual—$6 000; or

        (b)     in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

Note     Strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under this regulation, unless otherwise stated (see  s 6A).

    (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.