Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 173

173 Competence of worker—limited scientific diving work

(1) A person who is not permanently resident in Australia must not carry out limited scientific diving work unless the person has—

(a) the training, qualification or experience mentioned in section 171 (b) ; and

(b) relevant diving experience, including relevant diving experience obtained outside Australia.

Note—

See section 44 of the Act .

(2) In this section, a person has
"relevant diving experience" if the person has logged at least 60 hours 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 limited scientific diving work is to be carried out.