Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) In addition to regulation 171, a person must not carry out general diving work unless the person has, through training, qualification or experience, acquired sound knowledge and skill in relation to the following:
(a) the application of diving physics;
(b) the use, inspection and maintenance of diving equipment (including emergency equipment) and air supply of the type to be used in the proposed general diving work;
(c) the use of decompression tables or dive computers;
(e) ways of communicating with another diver and with persons at the surface during general diving work;
(f) how to safely carry out general diving work of the type proposed to be carried out;
(g) diving physiology, emergency procedures and first aid.
Note: See section 44 of the Act.
(2) This regulation does not apply in relation to incidental
diving work or limited scientific diving work.