South Australian Numbered Regulations South Australian Numbered Regulations (1) A diving
supervisor for a diving operation must ensure that a diving operations record
for the operation is maintained in the form required by
subregulations (2) and (3).
Maximum penalty: $5 500.
(2) A diving
operations record—
(a) must
be kept in a hard-covered form bound in such a way that its pages cannot
easily be removed; or
(b) if
it is in a form that has multiple copies of each page, must be bound so that
at least one copy of each page cannot easily be removed.
(3) The pages of a
diving operations record must be serially numbered.
(4) The diving
supervisor for a diving operation must ensure that an entry is made in the
diving operations record for each day when diving for the operation takes
place, with the following information about the diving operation on that day:
(a) the
date to which the entry relates;
(b) the
diving contractor's name and address;
(c) the
name of the diving supervisor, or the names of the diving supervisors, who
supervised the operation;
(d) the
location of the diving operation (including, if the diving was done from a
vessel or installation, its name);
(e) the
name of each person who took part in the operation (whether as a diver or as a
member of a dive team);
(f) the
name of each person who took part as a diver or stand by diver in the
operation;
(g) the
purpose of the diving operation;
(h) for
each diver—the breathing apparatus and breathing mixture used;
(i)
for each diver—the times at which the diver left
the surface, reached the bottom, left the bottom and arrived at the surface
again, and bottom time;
(j) for
each diver—the maximum depth reached;
(k) the
decompression schedule followed including, for each diver, details of the
depths and the duration at each depth during decompression;
(l)
details of any emergency or incident of special note that happened during the
operation;
(m)
details of any decompression illness and any treatment given;
(n)
details of any significant defect or significant failure of diving plant or
equipment used in the operation;
(o)
details of any environmental factors relevant to the operation;
(p)
anything else that is likely to affect the health or safety of anybody who
took part in the operation.
Maximum penalty: $1 100.
(5) A diving
supervisor responsible for a diving operation must sign—
(a)
either—
(i)
if the record is in a form that has multiple copies of
each page—the original of each page of each entry; or
(ii)
in any other case—each page of each entry; or
(b) if
there are 2 or more diving supervisors for the operation—those parts of
the entry that relate to diving work that he or she supervised,
in the diving operations record for the operation and must print his or her
name below the signature.
Maximum penalty: $1 100.
(6) A diving
contractor must keep a diving operations record for at least 7 years after the
last entry in it.
Maximum penalty: $550.