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Safety We have identified safety notices that may give you some useful information for your business or diving practices. COVID-19 and sanitisation of commercial diving life support equipment A summary of IMCA safety alerts Avoiding hazards in commercial diving Diver…
Section 4.8 of the Australian Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations were amended earlier this year with the most significant changes related to the General Diving category. Safe Work Australia published amendments to Section 4.8 of the WHS Regulations…
This issue provides details of an umbilical entanglement near miss, and accidental activation of emergency stop buttons from IMCA; and a warning about the high risk of working on pipelines which may be affected by dead-leg corrosion from the HSE…
The Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) has continued its Offshore Safety Review and invites people from within the industry to participate in public consultation. This is an ideal opportunity to have your say! The review began…
To help meet industry needs, a number of ADAS training courses are currently being developed which includes a free online revision module focussed on supervisor physics. The courses in development aim to provide easier access to training which meets the…
Diving contractor Professional Diving Services (PDS) recently hired an all female dive team to undertake maintenance work on enclosures at Taronga Zoo, Sydney. PDS won the three year maintenance contract for the penguin and seal enclosures in July 2018 and…
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has recently issued a number of alerts relating to diving related incidents, sadly one of these led to a fatality. The remaining two incidents were near misses which, if not for the quick action…
During police diver refresher training conducted in early 2019, a diver suffered Immersion Pulmonary Oedema (IPO) which resulted in hospitalisation and hyperbaric treatment. The diver involved in the incident is an experienced ADAS Part 3 (SSBA to 50m) police diver…
Earlier this year the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) was instrumental in the investigation of forged Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications which led to an AUD $75,000 penalty being issued to the person who fabricated the qualifications. While this case…
In November 2018 the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) made a change to the exam resit protocol for Offshore Supervisor and Life Support Technician (LST) certification applicants. The ADAS and IMCA processes are subject to mutual agreement therefore to maintain…