AS / NZS 2299.1:2015 Occupational Diving Operations - Standard Operational Practice - Tasmania

Description

You will need to comply with this standard if you intend to carry out high risk diving work. High risk diving work includes, but is not limited to, the following work carried out in or underwater whilst breathing compressed gas:

  • construction work
  • the assembly of prefabricated elements to form a structure
  • inspections for the purpose of construction work
  • the recovery or salvage of a large structure or large item of plant for commercial purposes.

This standard provides organisational and logistical requirements for the conduct of occupational diving operations, including the use of compressed gas supply apparatus and specific requirements for the use of surface-supplied breathing apparatus and self-contained underwater breathing apparatus in occupational underwater operations at depths not exceeding 50 metres.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Act(s) name

Work Health and Safety Act 2012 Tasmania

Regulation(s) name

Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022 Tasmania

Administering agency

Department of Justice

WorkSafe Tasmania

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