Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated 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).
Penalty: a fine of $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) A diving
supervisor for a diving operation must ensure that an entry is made in the
diving operations record for each day on which the operation is carried out,
with the following information about the operation for that day —
(a) the
date to which the entry relates;
(b) the
name and address of the diving contractor conducting the diving project of
which the operation is a part;
(c) the
name of each diving supervisor who supervised the operation;
(d) the
location of the diving operation (including, if the diving was done from a
vessel or installation, the name of the vessel or installation);
(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 in the operation as a diver or stand by
diver;
(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.
Penalty: a fine of $1 100.
(5) A diving
supervisor for a diving operation must sign in the diving operations record
for the operation —
(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 were 2 or more diving supervisors for the operation, each entry that
relates to the parts of the operation that the diving supervisor supervised,
and must print his or
her name below the signature.
Penalty: a fine of $1 100.
(6) A diving
contractor must keep a diving operations record for at least 7 years
after the last entry in it.
Penalty: a fine of $550.