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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ( GENERAL ) REGULATIONS 2022 - 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 competent person appointed under regulation 177; or

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

        Penalty for this subregulation:

            (a)         for an individual, a fine of $7 000;

            (b)         for a body corporate, a fine of $35 000.

        (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.



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