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AS/NZS 2299.2:2002
[Pending Revision]Occupational diving operations, Part 2: Scientific diving
Specifies requirements for personnel, equipment and procedures for diving performed as part of professional scientific research, natural resource management or scientific research as an educational activity. Appendices include competency of divers and training requirements, diving operations manual content, hand and lifeline signals, guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment and control, and exposure to altitude following diving.
Published: 04/04/2002
Pages: 68
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
PREFACE
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Objective
1.3 Application
1.4 Referenced documents
1.5 Definitions
1.6 Relationship with legislation
2 Personnel for diving operations
2.1 Employer
2.2 Diving officer
2.3 Dive coordinator
2.3.1 Availability
2.3.2 Qualifications of a dive coordinator
2.3.3 Duties of dive coordinators
2.4 Dive leader
2.5 Diver
2.5.1 Qualifications
2.5.2 Duties
2.6 Diver’s attendant
2.6.1 Availability and knowledge
2.6.2 Duties
2.7 Standby diver
2.7.1 General
2.7.2 Two divers in the water
2.7.3 Dive profile
2.8 Supervision of health
2.8.1 Certification by a medical practitioner
2.8.2 Fitness to dive
2.8.3 Intoxicants
2.9 First aid for diving teams
2.10 Records
2.10.1 Employer’s record of divers
2.10.2 Diver’s record
2.10.3 Employer’s record of dives
2.10.4 Maintenance record
3 Organization and planning
3.1 General
3.2 Dive site registration and risk assessment
3.3 Dive proposal
3.4 On site pre-dive plan and risk assessment
3.5 Selection of breathing apparatus
3.5.1 General
3.5.2 Factors to consider when selecting breathing apparatus
3.6 Surface conditions
3.7 In-water conditions
3.8 Depths
3.8.1 Depth of water
3.8.2 Depth limit
3.8.3 Precautions for deep diving
3.9 Water temperatures
3.10 Hazardous conditions
3.11 Diving at night
3.12 Communications
3.13 First aid, medical and emergency services
3.13.1 General
3.13.2 Oxygen resuscitation equipment
3.13.3 Emergency services
3.14 Decompression diving
3.14.1 Decompression schedules
3.14.2 Decompression diving deeper than 30 m
3.14.3 Decompression diving to depths up to and including 30 m
3.14.4 Precautionary decompression stops
3.15 Compression chamber support of diving
3.15.1 Availability of compression (recompression) chamber support
3.15.2 Requirement for an on site chamber
3.15.3 Recompression chamber type, staffing and operation
3.15.4 Diving without a dive site chamber
3.16 Diving before or after travel
3.16.1 Diving after travel
3.16.2 Travel after diving
3.16.3 After decompression illness
4 Diving equipment
4.1 Breathing apparatus
4.1.1 Design parameters
4.1.2 Requirements for component parts
4.1.2.1 General
4.1.2.2 Material contacting skin
4.1.2.3 Masks and helmets
4.1.2.4 Head harness
4.1.2.5 Mouthpiece
4.1.2.6 Diver’s hoses
4.1.2.7 Inlet and exhaust valves
4.1.2.8 Demand gas supply device
4.1.2.9 Cylinders
4.1.2.9.1 General
4.1.2.9.2 Diver’s breathing air cylinders
4.1.2.9.3 Other oxygen-nitrogen mixtures
4.2 Breathing gas supplies
4.2.1 Breathing air
4.2.2 Breathing gas testing equipment
4.2.3 Breathing gases other than air
4.3 Pressure gauges
4.3.1 Gauge calibration
4.3.2 Gauge accuracy
4.3.3 Contents gauges for SCUBA cylinders
4.4 Emergency gas supplies
4.5 Gas supply safety warning system
4.6 Air compressor systems
4.6.1 General
4.6.2 Air receivers
4.6.3 Pressure relief devices
4.6.4 Filtration, drying and odour absorption
4.6.5 Supply lines
4.6.6 Operation and maintenance
4.7 SSBA breathing gas supplies and control systems
4.7.1 Sources
4.7.2 Working pressure
4.7.3 Breathing gas supplies
4.7.3.1 Primary and secondary gas supplies
4.7.3.2 Gas supply system design
4.7.3.3 Emergency gas supply
4.7.4 Control systems
4.7.4.1 Gas control system
4.7.4.2 Diver depth monitoring system
4.7.4.3 Control panel
4.7.5 Cylinder gas systems
4.8 Pneumatic tools
4.9 Lifeline
4.10 Diving suit
4.11 Weights
4.11.1 Weight belt or weights
4.11.2 Weighted boots
4.12 Diver’s knife
4.13 Surface signalling device
5 Procedures for SCUBA diving
5.1 General
5.1.1 Requirements
5.1.2 Decompression diving
5.1.3 Breathing gas supply
5.2 Personnel required
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 Free-swimming mode SCUBA diving operations in open water
5.2.3 SCUBA diving operations in aquarium tanks and swimming pools or in sheltered open water
5.2.4 Tethered mode SCUBA diving operations for dive depths of up to 21 m
5.2.5 Tethered mode SCUBA diving operations exceeding 21 m
5.3 Diving equipment and breathing gas supplies
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Equipment for SCUBA divers
5.4 Low visibility
5.5 Boats — equipment and operation
5.6 Diving from shore
5.6.1 Shore party
5.6.2 Entry and exit
5.6.3 Dive site
5.7 Termination of dive
5.7.1 Termination
5.7.2 Resumption
6 Procedures for SSBA diving operations
6.1 General
6.2 Personnel required
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Dives in aquarium tanks and swimming pools or in sheltered open water up to 1.5 m deep (see Note)
6.2.3 Dives to depths up to and including 21 m
6.2.4 Dives with two or more divers in the water
6.2.5 Dives to depths deeper than 21 m
6.3 Lifeline
6.4 Diving equipment and breathing gas supplies
6.4.1 General
6.4.2 Equipment for SSBA divers
7 Diving accidents
7.1 Accident report
7.2 Investigation of accidents and incidents
8 Reciprocity
8.1 Intent
8.2 Certification
8.2.1 Issue of certification
8.2.2 Medical certificate
Appendix A
A.1 General
A.2 Classification and competency of divers
A.3 Scientific diver
A.3.1 Scientific SCUBA diver
A.3.2 Scientific SSBA diver
A.4 Restricted scientific diver
A.4.1 General
A.4.2 Criteria
A.4.3 Restrictions
A.5 Dive coordinator
A.6 Diving officer
A.7 Diving from a boat
A.8 Diving where a surface recompression chamber is on site
A.9 Competencies
A.9.1 Scientific SCUBA diver
A.9.1.1 Units of competency and training course content
A.9.1.2 SCUBA diving theory
A.9.1.3 SCUBA diving practical
A.9.2 Scientific SSBA diver
A.9.2.1 Competencies
A.9.2.2 Diving using incompressible helmets and band masks
A.9.2.3 Diving using half-face masks and separate demand valve, and ‘soft’ full face masks
A.9.2.4 SSBA diving theory
A.9.2.5 SSBA diving practical
Appendix B
B.1 Content of manual
B.2 Procedures
B.3 Items for inclusion in manuals
B.3.1 General
B.3.2 Administration
B.3.3 Plant for diving
B.3.4 Diving procedures
B.3.5 Diving emergencies
B.3.6 Associated activity factors
B.3.7 Other hazards
B.3.8 Appendices
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
G.1 Hazard identification
G.2 Risk assessment
G.2.1 General
G.2.2 Process
G.2.3 Basis for an assessment
G.2.4 Factors for consideration
G.2.5 Record of assessment
G.3 Risk control
G.3.1 General
G.3.2 Control measures
Appendix H
H.1 Scope
H.2 Recommendations
Cited references in this standard
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