Diving Regulations, 2001
8. Decompression

 

 

1)        An employer shall ensure that no matches, cigarette lighters, smoking requisites or any other flammable articles likely to cause a fire or explosion are at any time taken into or stored in the compression chambers.

 

2)        No employer shall require or permit any diver in his or her employ to perform a dive, and no diver shall perform a dive, unless decompression is carried out in accordance with the techniques, decompression tables and decompression times determined by the diving supervisor.

 

3)        An employer shall ensure that a complete copy of the decompression tables contemplated in subregulation (2), together with the relevant explanatory procedures, is available for the information of the diving team on the site where diving operations are being performed: Provided that abstracts from the decompression tables may be made available for the information of the diving team and that the employer shall produce the appropriate identifiable decompression tables when required to do so by an inspector.

 

4)        Subject to regulation 8 of the General Administrative Regulations published under Government Notice No.R.1449 on 6 September 1996, an employer shall ensure that a record, which shall be open for inspection by an inspector, is kept of all incidents of decompression illness and shall ensure that all such cases are investigated.