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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 178

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 person appointed under regulation 177; or

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

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

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

        (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.



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