Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Employer Obligation.
(1) The employer shall be responsible for
compliance with:
(A) All provisions of this
standard of general applicability; and
(B) All requirements pertaining to specific
modes to the extent diving operations in such modes are
conducted.
(2) The
employer shall not:
(A) Require a dive team
member to be exposed to hyperbaric conditions against the employee's will,
except when necessary to prevent or treat pressure related injury.
(B) Permit a dive team member to dive for the
duration of any physical impairment or condition which is known to the employer
and is likely to affect adversely the safety or health of the employee or other
dive team members.
(b) Requirement for a Manual for Diving
Safety. The employer shall develop and maintain a Manual for Diving Safety
which shall be made available at the dive location to each dive team member.
The emergency evacuation and emergency medical treatment sections of the Manual
for Diving Safety shall be abstracted and with the decompression, repetitive,
and no-decompression tables (as appropriate) be available at the dive
location.
(c) The Dive Team.
(1) Person-in-Charge:
(A) The employer or an employee designated by
the employer shall be at the dive location in charge of all aspects of the
diving operation affecting the safety and health of dive team
members.
(B) The designated
person-in-charge shall have experience and training in the conduct of the
assigned diving operation.
(C)
Responsibilities.
1. Coordination. Diving
shall be coordinated with other known activities in the vicinity which are
likely to interfere with diving operations.
2. Briefing. The dive team members shall be
briefed on:
(i) Dive objectives;
(ii) Any unusual hazards or environmental
conditions likely to affect the safety of the diving operation;
(iii) Any modifications to diving or
emergency procedures necessitated by the specific diving operation;
(iv) Immediately reporting any physical
problems or adverse physiological effects including symptoms of pressure
related injuries.
3.
Pre-Dive Inspection. The designated-person-in-charge shall ascertain that the
diver has conducted a functional check of his or her own diving equipment and
shall inquire into the diver's current state of diving
fitness.
(2)
Diver. Qualifications: The diver shall be trained and qualified for the diving
mode being used and shall have the training and experience to participate in
diving activities in a safe and healthful manner.
(3) Diver-in-Training. Qualifications: The
diver-in-training shall have the training and experience to participate in the
training activity in safe and healthful manner.
(d) Dive Team Training and Experience.
(1) Each dive team member shall have
experience or training in the following:
(A)
The use of the instruments and equipment appropriate to the diving activity to
be conducted.
(B) Techniques of the
diving mode to be used.
(C) Dive
planning and emergency procedures.
(2) All dive team members shall be trained in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, diver rescue techniques and diving related first
aid.
(3) Dive team members who are
exposed to or control the exposure of others to hyperbaric conditions shall be
trained in diving-related physics and physiology and recognition of pressure
related injuries.
(e)
Warning Signal. When diving from surfaces other than vessels in areas capable
of supporting marine traffic, a rigid replica of the international code flag
"A" at least one meter in height shall be displayed at the dive location in a
manner which allows all-round visibility, and shall be illuminated during night
diving operations.
(f) First-Aid
Supplies.
(1) A first-aid kit appropriate for
the diving operation and approved by a physician shall be available at the dive
location.
(2) When used in a
decompression chamber or bell, the first-aid kit shall be suitable for use
under hyperbaric conditions.
(3) In
addition to any other first aid supplies, an American Red Cross standard first
aid handbook or equivalent, and a bag-type manual resuscitator with transparent
mask and tubing shall be available at the dive location.
(g) Record of Dive.
(1) The following information shall be
recorded for each diving operation and retained for a period of one year.
(A) Names of dive team members including
designated person-in-charge;
(B)
Date, time and location;
(C) Diving
modes used;
(D) General nature of
diving activity;
(E) Approximate
underwater and surface conditions (visibility, water temperature and
current);
(F) Maximum depth, bottom
time, surface interval time and mixed-gas profiles (if used) for each
diver.
(G) Diving tables used if
other than U.S. Navy Standard Air Table.
(H) For each dive outside the
no-decompression limits, deeper than 100 fsw or using mixed gas, the following
additional information shall be recorded and maintained:
1. Depth-time and breathing gas
profiles;
2. Decompression table
designation (including modification); and
3. Elapsed time since last pressure exposure
if less than 24 hours or repetitive dive designation for each
diver.
(2) If
pressure related injuries are suspected or if symptoms are evident, the
following additional information shall be recorded and retained with the record
of dive for a period of 5 years.
(A)
Description of symptoms (including depths and time of onset); and
(B) Description and results of
treatment.
(3) Pressure
Related Injury Assessment. The employer shall:
(A) Investigate and document any incident of
pressure related injury.
(B)
Prepare a written report of the incident resulting in the pressure related
injury, including any corrective action taken, within 45 days of the incident.
This report shall be retained for a period of 5 years.
(C) Take appropriate corrective action to
reduce the probability of recurrence.
1.
Amendment of subsection (c) filed 12-8-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 86, No. 50).
2. Amendment of subsection (b), repealer of
subsections (c)(1)(A)-(B), (c)(1)(C)4.-(c)(1)(C)4.(ii) and (e)(1)-(3), new
subsections (c)(1)(A)-(B) and (e), amendment of subsection (f)(1) and new
subsections (f)(3) and (g)(1)(H)-(g)(1)(H)3. filed 11-28-2017; operative
11-28-2017 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3).
Submitted to OAL for filing and printing only pursuant to Labor Code section
142.3(a)(3)
(Register 2017, No. 48).
Note: Authority cited: Section
142.3, Labor
Code. Reference: Section
142.3, Labor
Code.
