Contrary to appearances, professional diving is a dangerous profession. The changes to diving in Norway from January 1 are aimed at improving the situation of professional divers. Among other things, regulations on how many people should be involved in underwater operations.
So far, there have been three people
With the current legal status, each professional diving should take place with the participation of three people: a diver, a coordinator and a rescue diver. Dive Changes from January 1, they will increase the number of people to 4, and an additional function will be performed by the man responsible for holding the rope. The new regulations are designed to provide sufficiently large staff to support the operation not only under water.
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Additional training
Dive Changes they will also contribute to introducing the obligation of additional training of the coordinator. After the amendment to the law, such a course will last two weeks. However, this is not the end of the changes - the coordinator will have to refresh his powers every five years.
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Support diver equipment
They will also change requirements for support diver. According to the new regulations, the person performing this function must be ready to enter the water no longer than one minute after reporting underwater problems. For this reason, during the operation support diver it should be fully prepared and fully equipped. He may not be wearing just a mask.
Operation logging
Dive Changes they also include an obligation for the companies that handle each such operation to report. A problematic issue may be that the professional diving industry does not have a separate code in Brønnøysund. As he explains, however The Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority - notifications of such operations are to help municipalities to better understand what companies deal with this type of activity.
Changes after the intervention of the Labor Inspectorate
Dive Changes were introduced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. They are the result of the intervention of Norwegian representatives Labor Inspectorate (Norwegian The Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority). Inspectors were concerned about the fact that diving is not adequately regulated. This had a negative impact on the safety level of all operations that take place under the water surface. The purpose of the new regulations is to raise the level of divers' safety and implementation principles of proper cooperation.
