Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

18.9 (1) Every employer shall ensure that, for each dive, the dive team develops a dive plan that identifies the surface and underwater conditions and hazards likely to be encountered, including those arising from contaminated environments and underwater pressure differentials, and that specifies

• (a) the duties of each dive team member;

• (b) the diving equipment to be used;

• (c) the breathing supply requirements, including the reserve supply;

• (d) the thermal protection to be used;

• (e) the repetitive dive factor;

• (f) the no-decompression limit;

• (g) the emergency procedures to be followed;

• (h) the communication methods to be used;

• (i) for a type 1 dive that is a scuba dive, whether there is a need for a diver’s tender;

• (j) the circumstances in which the dive must be terminated;

• (k) the procedures to be followed to ensure that machinery, equipment or devices that could create a hazard have been locked out; and

• (l) whether lifelines must be used.

(2) In the case of a type 1 dive, the dive plan referred to in subsection (1) shall also specify whether there is a need for a standby diver.

(3) In the case of a type 2 dive that requires decompression, the dive plan referred to in subsection (1) shall also specify the decompression schedule to be used.