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Canada – Nova Scotia Offshore Area Diving Operations Safety Transitional Regulations (SOR/2015-6)

Regulations are current to 2024-03-06

SCHEDULE 2(Paragraph 3(4)(g))Emergency Procedures

    • 1 (1) The contingency plan for a diving program must contain the emergency procedures to be followed in circumstances that are likely to endanger a diver or a pilot and that make it impossible and unsafe to follow the procedures contained in the procedures manual for the diving program, including circumstances such as

      • (a) deteriorating environmental conditions;

      • (b) unexpected weather or sea-state conditions;

      • (c) the inability of a craft to maintain itself at the location of the dive site;

      • (d) the evacuation of a craft or installation;

      • (e) the evacuation of the divers under pressures greater than atmospheric pressure;

      • (f) in-water emergency transfers;

      • (g) the failure of any major component of any diving plant and equipment; and

      • (h) the fouling of equipment below the surface that impairs the ability of a diver or pilot to complete a dive.

    • (2) The emergency procedures referred to in subsection (1) must include procedures for

      • (a) emergency signalling between divers involved in the diving program and between the divers and their attendants using umbilicals or other suitable methods;

      • (b) the provision of stand-by divers;

      • (c) the provision of crafts, stand-by boats and any other devices to be used for rescue;

      • (d) the provision of first-aid treatment and therapeutic decompression;

      • (e) the use of the evacuation, rescue and treatment facilities and devices referred to in section 22 to be used in the diving program;

      • (f) contacting the evacuation, rescue and treatment facilities and devices referred to in section 22 and the medical services referred to in paragraph 23(b) that will be used in the diving program;

      • (g) the operation of the emergency power supply;

      • (h) the evacuation of a craft or installation used in the diving program;

      • (i) the evacuation of divers under pressures greater than atmospheric pressure; and

      • (j) in-water emergency transfers.

 

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