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.