The December 2025 issue of The Regulator, published by NOPSEMA, contains two key updates for hyperbaric workers. The first is the release of updated Diving Guidelines, and the second brings focus to the importance of regulating psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
SPUMS Withdraws COVID-19 Guidance Documents
The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) has withdrawn key COVID-19 guidance documents as of January 1st 2024.
The Society cites reasons for withdrawing the documents as follows:
- High vaccination rates in Australian and New Zealand populations coupled with lower virulence of current SARS-CoV-2 variants has meant that the health threats from the disease are now reduced.
- Mild COVID infections in vaccinated divers have not been demonstrated to affect fitness to dive. Divers have successfully returned to diving once asymptomatic.
- Current expert medical opinion is that COVID-19 infections can be managed in the same way as for other seasonal virus infections.
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