Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan diving operations
- Prepare for diving operations
- Obtain equipment and personnel required for dive operations
- Obtain appropriate notification and consents for dive plans
- Check equipment condition
- Send faulty equipment for repair or replacement
- Assess requirements for and source consumables
- Check personnel for competence and possession of a current medical clearance
- Develop safety and emergency procedures for the dive program
- Conduct a safety hazard analysis and risk assessment
- Conduct dive
- Establish communications procedures for all dives
- Perform pre-dive checks
- Complete assessment of environmental factors before entering the water
- Conduct dives within the parameters of the special dive plan, including entry, descent, working on dive objective and exit
- Amend dive procedures within enterprise requirements, codes of practice and personal authority in light of dive conditions, and any changes to dive objectives
- Monitor dive conditions and suspend or cancel dives where safety or equipment operation considerations warrant
- Suspend dives where personnel have completed allowed number of dives according to no-decompression limit tables
- Remove equipment from site at completion of dives
- Carry out dives according to Australian Standard
- Debrief diving team
- Check and store equipment
- Review diving program
- Respond to diving incidents
- Monitor dive operations to identify potential or actual incidents
- Suspend or cancel dive operations where potential or actual maladies have been identified
- Ensure a rescue plan has been developed for all dives and that the plan has been communicated to the dive team as part of the pre-dive briefing
- Apply diver first aid to injured or distressed personnel
- Notify emergency authorities where assistance is required
- Review procedures and dive plan in light of risks identified and potential or actual malady
- Record all incidents on the enterprise register