Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - 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 section 177 ; or

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(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.