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Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 37
37 (1) No diving supervisor shall, in a diving operation supervised by the diving supervisor, permit a person to make (a) a category I dive in the diving operation unless the person meets the criteria set out in section 53, 55 or 57; (b) a category II dive in the diving operation unless the person meets the criteria set out in section 55 or 57; or (c) a category III dive in the diving operation unless the person meets the criteria set out in section 57. (2) No ADS supervisor shall, in an ADS diving operation supervised by the ADS supervisor, permit a person to make an ADS dive in the diving operation unless the person meets the criteria set out in section 64. (3) No supervisor shall, in a diving operation under his supervision, permit a person to be involved in the diving operation where the supervisor believes on reasonable grounds that the person is unfit to be involved in that diving operation or that the involvement of that person in the diving operation could compromise the safety of other persons involved in the diving operation. (4) A diving supervisor shall plan dives in such a manner that the total bottom time of a diver supervised by the supervisor does not exceed, in any 24 hour period, (a) in the case of a category I dive (i) five hours at depths of 20 m or less, or (ii) three hours at depths of more than 20 m; (b) in the case of a category II dive, three hours; and (c) in the case of a category III dive, eight hours. (5) A diving supervisor shall plan a diving operation in such a manner that, where practicable, a diving bell is used in the diving operation for any dive to a depth of more than 30 m that requires surface decompression. (6) An ADS supervisor shall ensure that a pilot supervised by the supervisor does not remain underwater, in any 24 hour period, for more than a total of eight hours. (7) A supervisor shall ensure that, following a dive under his supervision, the diver or pilot who made the dive has an adequate rest period.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 39
39 (1) No supervisor shall conduct a diving operation unless (a) prior to the commencement of a dive that is part of the diving operation, the supervisor has consulted the person in charge of the craft or installation from which the diving operation will be conducted and any other person whose assistance the supervisor considers necessary for the dive; (b) the supervisor has taken into account, in any decision respecting the diving operation, the meteorological data available to the supervisor and the environmental conditions in the area of the proposed dive site; (c) protective headgear is available for any diver involved in the diving operation at any time that the diver is at or below the surface of the water and, where practicable, at any time the diver is transported in a skip; (d) during any period of darkness or low visibility (i) any diver involved in the diving operation is provided with, and has attached to the diver’s person, a lamp or other suitable device that indicates the diver’s location, and (ii) where the nature of the diving operation permits, the dive site and the underwater work site of the diving operation is adequately illuminated; (e) any standby diver involved in the diving operation has an umbilical at least 3 m longer than the umbilical of the diver for whom the stand-by diver acts as stand-by; (f) the divers and pilots involved in the diving operation are protected from any danger or hazards that could be caused by (i) sonar, (ii) devices emitting electromagnetic or ionizing radiation, (iii) the propeller and the manoeuvring unit of any craft from which the diving operation is being conducted and the flows of water created by the propeller and the manoeuvering unit, (iv) the normal movements of a craft referred to in subparagraph (iii) and any movements of the craft caused by unexpected loss of power or stability, (v) any suction or water current encountered in or resulting from the diving operation, and (vi) equipment on a craft or an installation from which the diving operation is being conducted; and (g) plans have been made, in the event a craft from which the diving operation is being conducted loses power, to protect and to recover a diver or pilot involved in the diving operation who is in the water. (2) No diving supervisor shall permit a diver supervised by the supervisor to enter the water unless (a) the diver (i) is wearing a diving harness complete with a pelvic support and lifting ring and is equipped, where practicable, with a depth indicator capable of being monitored from the surface, and (ii) has a bale-out gas bottle that is independent of the primary supply of breathing mixture to the diver; and (b) all impressed current cathodic protection devices situated within a radius of 5 m from the diver’s underwater work site are deactivated and the notice referred to in subparagraph 6(1)(g)(ii) is prominently displayed on the controls of those devices, or other equally effective measures are taken to ensure the safety of any diver within a radius of 5 m of any active impressed current cathodic protection devices.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 40
40 (1) No diving supervisor shall permit a diver supervised by the supervisor to make a dive that is part of a diving operation from (a) a place referred to in paragraph 6(1)(b) that is unsuitable; (b) a craft that has insufficient power or stability for the safe conduct of the dive; (c) a dive site located more than 2 m above the water unless a suitable skip, diving bell or diving submersible is used to transport the diver through the air-water interface; (d) a dynamically positioned craft unless (i) the craft has been operating in the dynamically positioned mode for at least 30 minutes before the diver enters the water, (ii) the range of surge or sway movement of the water at the dive site is less than 80 per cent of the maximum operational capacity limit of the craft, (iii) a skip or a diving bell is positioned as close as possible to the diver’s underwater work site, (iv) all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent any umbilical used in the dive from coming into contact with any propeller or manoeuvring unit of the craft, (v) any change of heading or positioning of the craft, at any time a diver involved in the diving operation is in the water, is made only after the diving supervisor has granted permission for the change and the diver has been notified, and (vi) the craft complies with the requirements of section 25; and (e) a craft that is under way, except in the case of an emergency. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a craft that is operating in the dynamically positioned mode and that complies with the requirements of section 25 is not considered to be under way. (3) No supervisor shall conduct a diving operation unless the person in charge of the craft or installation from which the diving operation is to be conducted has been notified of the proposed diving operation.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 41
41 No diving supervisor shall use or permit to be used SCUBA in a diving operation supervised by the supervisor except where any other diving technique is impracticable or hazardous to use and unless (a) the diving operation is conducted in water that is less than 20 m deep; (b) the diving operation can be completed without the need for decompression; (c) the diver using SCUBA is connected to a lifeline or, where the use of a lifeline is impracticable, (i) the diver is in contact, visually or orally, with another diver who is in the water, securely connected to a lifeline and assisted by an attendant at the dive site, or (ii) some other effective method of ensuring that diver’s safety is provided; (d) there is a practical means of communication between the supervisor and the diver using SCUBA and there is a means of oral communication between the supervisor and other personnel involved in the diving operation; (e) the diving crew for the duration of the diving operation includes a minimum of one supervisor, one diver, one stand-by diver and as many attendants as the supervisor considers necessary to ensure the safety of the divers involved in the diving operation; and (f) all applicable provisions of these Regulations are complied with.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 42
42 No diving supervisor shall conduct a category I diving operation, other than a diving operation in which SCUBA is used, unless (a) a suitable skip is used to transport the divers involved in the diving operation to an underwater work site that is 20 m or more in depth and, where practicable, to an underwater work site that is less than 20 m in depth; (b) an umbilical directly from the surface or via a skip is used to supply the appropriate breathing mixture to the divers involved in the dive that is part of the diving operation; (c) the supervisor is in oral communication with any divers, stand-by divers and attendants involved in the diving operation at all times during the diving operation; (d) the supervisor has a means of monitoring the depth of each diver involved in the diving operation and the pressure of the breathing mixture being supplied to each diver and stand-by diver involved in the dive; (e) each diver involved in the dive is securely connected to a lifeline; and (f) the diving crew for the duration of the diving operation, includes one diving supervisor, one diver and a minimum of (i) one stand-by diver equipped with an umbilical at least 3 m longer than the umbilical of the diver for whom the stand-by diver acts as stand-by, (ii) one attendant at the dive site of the diving operation, and (iii) as many additional attendants as the supervisor considers necessary to ensure the safety of the divers involved in the diving operation.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 43
43 No diving supervisor shall conduct a category II diving operation unless (a) the requirements referred to in paragraphs 42(c) to (e) are complied with; (b) a diving bell or diving submersible is used for any descent or ascent of a diver to or from the underwater work site of the diving operation; (c) the diving supervisor has a means of monitoring the internal pressure of any diving bell or surface compression chamber or the compression chamber of any diving submersible used in the diving operation; and (d) the diving crew, for the duration of the diving operation, includes one diving supervisor and a minimum of (i) two divers who are in the diving bell or diving submersible used in the diving operation, one of whom is equipped with an umbilical at least 3 m longer than the umbilical of the diver for whom the stand-by diver acts as stand-by, (ii) one additional stand-by diver and one attendant at the dive site of the diving operation, and (iii) as many additional attendants as the supervisor considers necessary to ensure the safety of the divers involved in the diving operation.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 44
44 (1) No diving supervisor shall, in a saturation dive supervised by the supervisor, permit the total dive time of any diver involved in the dive to exceed 31 days. (2) No diving supervisor shall conduct a category III diving operation unless the diving crew, for the duration of the dive, includes the persons referred to in paragraph 43(d) and as many additional specialists and life-support technicians as the diving supervisor considers necessary to ensure the safety of the divers involved in the dive.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 45
45 No diving supervisor shall make a dive while supervising a diving operation, even in the case of an emergency.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 46
46 (1) Where a skip, diving bell, diving submersible or ADS used in a diving operation is being lowered into or raised from the water, the supervisor of the diving operation shall ensure that the skip, diving bell, diving submersible or ADS, as the case may be, is continuously within the supervisor’s vision, either directly or by any other means. (2) Where, in a diving operation, a diving bell is coupled with a surface compression chamber by means of a clamping mechanism, the supervisor of the diving operation shall permit only a person who is familiar with the operational procedures designed for the clamping mechanism to operate that clamping mechanism. (3) Where, in a diving operation, a person is transferred to or from a diving bell, the supervisor of the diving operation shall ensure that any surface compression chambers used in the diving operation but not used in the transfer are, during the transfer, isolated from the surface compression chambers used in the transfer. (4) Where a diver involved in a diving operation exhibits any unusual psychological or physiological symptoms or any severe symptoms of decompression sickness, the diving supervisor of the diving operation shall advise the specialized diving doctor referred to in paragraph 4(3)(d) and the operator responsible for that diving operation of those symptoms and shall supervise any therapeutic recompression or decompression of the diver. (5) A diving supervisor shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that, except in the event of the evacuation of a diver during a diving operation supervised by the diving supervisor, (a) a diver involved in the diving operation who has completed a dive does not fly in an aircraft (i) for 12 hours following a non-decompression dive, (ii) for 24 hours following decompression, or (iii) for such longer period as the diving supervisor considers necessary to ensure that the diver does not suffer decompression sickness; and (b) a diver involved in the diving operation who has completed a saturation dive remains under observation in the general area of the decompression chamber for at least 24 hours after decompression or such longer period as is sufficient in the opinion of the diving supervisor to ensure the well-being of the diver. (6) A diving supervisor shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that, in the evacuation of a person during a diving operation supervised by the supervisor, a person involved in the diving operation who has completed decompression within the preceding 24 hours does not fly in an aircraft at an altitude greater than is operationally necessary in the circumstances.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 47
47 (1) No supervisor shall conduct a diving operation unless (a) the diving plant and equipment referred to in paragraph 9(5)(h) meets the relevant requirements of sections 12 to 21, is available for use when required and that diving plant and equipment, other than diving plant and equipment intended to be mobile during the diving operation, is, at all times during the diving operation, firmly secured to the craft or installation from which the diving operation is conducted; and (b) any electrically operated diving plant and equipment that is used in the diving operation is suitable for the location in which it is to be used and is protected from hazards caused by water and environmental conditions. (2) No supervisor shall, in a diving operation supervised by the supervisor, use any diving plant and equipment in the diving operation unless (a) the appropriate examinations and tests referred to in subsection 11(1) have been carried out on the diving plant and equipment and the certificates related to those examinations and tests have been inserted into or attached to the register referred to in subsection 11(3); and (b) the supervisor has, not more than 24 hours before such use, (i) examined the diving plant and equipment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the applicable procedures manual and found it to be in good working order, and (ii) where appropriate, in addition to the examination referred to in subparagraph (i), tested for leaks any pump, compressor, cylinder or pipeline used in the diving operation to convey breathing mixture and found it free from leaks. (3) No diving supervisor shall conduct a dive unless a two-compartment compression chamber (a) that has been approved in accordance with section 5 for the diving program of which the dive is a part, to be used at a pressure that is not less than six atmospheres absolute and, where the maximum working pressure that may be encountered during the dive is greater than six atmospheres absolute, at the maximum working pressure plus one atmosphere, and (b) that is suitable for the dive is located in a readily accessible place on board the craft or installation from which the dive is conducted, except where the dive is conducted at a depth of 10 m or less, in which case the compression chamber may be located within one hour’s travelling time from the dive site.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 48
48 (1) No supervisor shall conduct a diving operation in which (a) an oxygen supply system is used unless the oxygen supply system meets the requirements set out in section 19; (b) a breathing mixture supply system is used unless the breathing mixture supply system meets the requirements set out in sections 20 and 21; and (c) an analyser is used to determine the relative levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide during any dive that is part of the diving operation unless the analyser is recalibrated in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions for that analyser prior to the dive. (2) Where an analyser is used continuously in a diving operation to determine the relative levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide during any dive that is part of the diving operation, the supervisor of the dive shall ensure that the analyser is recalibrated in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions for that analyser, where practicable, every two hours. (3) No diving supervisor shall, in a diving operation supervised by the supervisor, use or permit to be used an on-line gas blender or a diver’s gas recovery system in the diving operation unless throughout the period that the blender or the diver’s gas recovery system is in use the requirements of section 21 are complied with.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 49
49 (1) No supervisor shall commence or continue a diving operation unless (a) the total quantity of appropriate breathing mixture that is available at any time during the diving operation consists of the quantities set out in section 22; (b) the purity of the breathing mixture is of an acceptable standard; and (c) the quantities of breathing mixture referred to in subparagraphs 22(1)(a)(ii) and (iii) are available for immediate use at a flow rate, temperature and pressure that are safe for the user. (2) No supervisor shall permit a diver supervised by the supervisor to make a dive unless (a) the total quantity of appropriate breathing mixture, including the reserve supply, (i) carried by the diver is sufficient to enable that diver to reach a skip, diving bell or diving submersible used in connection with the dive, a reserve supply referred to in subparagraph 22(1)(a)(ii) or the surface, and (ii) available to the diver’s stand-by diver for immediate use consists of an adequate quantity to enable the stand-by diver to reach the diver and to enable the stand-by diver and the diver (A) to carry out appropriate decompression procedures and return to the surface, or (B) to return to the skip, diving bell or diving submersible used in connection with the dive and to carry out appropriate decompression procedures either in that skip, diving bell or diving submersible, as the case may be, or at the surface; and (b) the supervisor has analysed the breathing mixture for the accuracy of its oxygen content immediately prior to the dive. (3) No supervisor shall, in a diving operation supervised by the supervisor, use or permit to be used (a) compressed air as a breathing mixture at water depths greater than 50 m or at pressures that are equivalent to the pressures of water depths greater than 50 m except in the case of a category III dive; or (b) pure oxygen as a breathing mixture except for decompression or therapeutic purposes. (4) A supervisor shall protect any breathing mixture to be used in a diving operation supervised by the supervisor from any likelihood of contamination. (5) Where a diving supervisor becomes aware of any oil or other contaminant in waters in which a diving operation supervised by the supervisor is being conducted, that supervisor shall take all necessary steps to avoid any contamination of any diver in the water and of the ambient atmosphere in any compression chamber used in the diving operation.
Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 51
51 (1) A supervisor shall keep a logbook that is permanently bound, has numbered pages and contains the name and signature of the supervisor and a photograph that is a likeness of the supervisor. (2) A supervisor shall, as soon as possible after supervision of a dive or after a period of supervision of a portion of a dive, enter in the logbook referred to in subsection (1), for each dive or portion of a dive supervised by the supervisor, (a) the date of the dive; (b) the name of the diving contractor, if any, who conducted the dive; (c) the name of the operator or the operator’s representative responsible for the diving operation; (d) the name or other designation and location of the craft or installation from which, or other dive site at which, the dive was conducted; (e) the dive identification number referred to in paragraph 50(1)(e); (f) the name of each diver or pilot supervised; (g) the maximum depth, bottom time and dive time of the dive; (h) the decompression table and the schedule in that decompression table that were used in the dive; (i) details of any medical care or advice given and the type of therapeutic treatment used, if any; (j) any emergency in connection with the dive; and (k) any other factor relevant to the safety or health of any person involved in the dive. (3) A supervisor shall, after completion of an entry in the supervisor’s logbook in accordance with subsection (2), immediately sign the entry and request the operator or the operator’s representative responsible for the dive to countersign the entry as soon as possible. (4) No person shall make any alteration to an entry in a supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) unless the alteration is initialled by the supervisor and by the person who countersigned the entry. (5) A supervisor shall produce, on request, the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) for inspection by (a) a conservation engineer pursuant to paragraph 43(b) of the Act; and (b) the diving doctor who examines the supervisor for the purposes of these Regulations, at the time of the examination. (6) A supervisor shall keep in the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) (a) the supervisor’s diving supervisor’s certificate or ADS supervisor’s certificate; (b) the supervisor’s written appointment as a supervisor pursuant to subsection 9(3); (c) any certificates or other evidence of qualification in addition to those referred to in paragraph (a); and (d) any certificates or other evidence of medical examination received from a diving doctor. (7) A supervisor shall retain the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) for a period of not less than two years after the day of the last entry made in it.