New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 172

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 clause 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 clause 171.

Note : See section 44 of the Act.

(2) In this clause, 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.