5. (1) The Chief Safety Officer is authorized to grant, in accordance with subsection (2), any approval prescribed in these Regulations and to make that approval subject to, in addition to the requirements prescribed in these Regulations, such requirements, terms or conditions as the Chief Safety Officer determines.

(2) The Chief Safety Officer shall provide a person with evidence of any approval granted to the person pursuant to subsection (1).

(3) The Chief Safety Officer is authorized to suspend or revoke an approval referred to in subsection (1) for failure to comply with or for contravention of the terms and conditions subject to which the approval was granted.

(4) Where the Chief Safety Officer, pursuant to subsection (3), suspends or revokes an approval granted to a person, the Chief Safety Officer shall give the person an opportunity to show cause why the approval should not be suspended or revoked.

6. (1) The operator of a diving program shall

• (a) arrange for the services of a diving safety specialist who will be available on a 24 hour a day basis to advise any person involved in the diving program, including any person making decisions affecting the safety of divers involved in the diving program, on all safety aspects of the diving program;

• (b) make available a suitable place from which any diving operation that is part of the diving program may be conducted;

• (c) to the extent practicable, give advance notice of any operation that is part of the diving program to the person in charge of any craft or installation in the vicinity of the operation;

• (d) make available adequate forecasts of environmental conditions to the supervisor on duty at a diving operation that is part of the diving program

  • (i) before the diving operation begins, and

  • (ii) during the diving operation, at intervals of not more than 24 hours and at any time where the supervisor requests those forecasts;

• (e) inform the supervisor on duty at a diving operation that is part of the diving program of any matter within the operator’s control that may affect the safety of the diving operation;

• (f) provide an adequate and effective system of communication between the supervisor who is on duty and any person, other than the divers and pilots, involved in, or in a position to assist in, a diving operation that is part of the diving program, including a winch or crane operator and a person on the bridge, on the rig floor or in the main control room of a craft or installation used in the diving operation;

• (g) while a diving operation that is part of the diving program is in progress, prominently display notices to that effect

  • (i) in the case of any craft or installation used in the diving operation, on the bridge and in the engine room, and

  • (ii) in the case of any diving plant and equipment used in the diving operation, on any controls the operation of which might endanger a diver or pilot and on any controls for impressed current cathodic protection;

• (h) display in the control room of a craft that will be operated in the dynamically positioned mode in a diving operation that is part of the diving program a copy of the dynamically positioned diving operational capacity graph in respect of the craft;

• (i) in the event that a member of a diving crew involved in the diving program meets with an accident, notify the Chief Safety officer or a safety officer of the accident by the most rapid and practicable means and submit to the Chief Safety Officer or the safety officer a report of the accident in the form set out in Schedule III;

• (j) in the event of a serious illness affecting a member of a diving crew involved in the diving program or an incident in connection with the diving program, notify the Chief Safety Officer or a safety officer of the illness or incident as soon as possible, investigate the cause of the illness or incident and submit to the Chief Safety Officer or the safety officer a report of that illness or incident, including, in the case of an incident, a report in the form set out in Schedule III;

• (k) submit to the Chief Safety Officer a monthly report of all injuries to any member of a diving crew involved in a diving operation that is part of the diving program; and

• (l) during the course of any diving operation that is part of the diving program, display a copy of the authorization under paragraph 138(1)(b) of the Act for that diving program and evidence of any approval granted in relation to that authorization pursuant to section 5 in a prominent place at the diving station for the diving operation.

(2) The operator of a diving program shall not

• (a) conduct any diving operation that is part of the diving program in the vicinity of any other activity that might pose a danger to any person involved in the diving operation;

• (b) use, in a diving operation, any craft that has insufficient power or stability for the safe conduct of the diving operation; and

• (c) prevent any diving contractor involved in the diving program from complying with any of the provisions of these Regulations.