Commercial diving/Prepare for and carry out emergency procedures and drills
Relevance: Scuba diving (partial), Surface supplied diving (partial), Surface oriented wet bell diving (full).
Required outcomes:
- Prepare for and carry out generic emergency procedures and drills, including:
- Deal with loss of gas in the chamber
- Handle loss of communication on deck/above water to team members
- Provide basic life support and first aid to an injured team member
- Recover man overboard
- Respond to fire alarm and evacuation
- Carry out chamber blow-down and check built-in breathing systems function and oxygen supply
- Perform a communications check with the Designated Medical Practitioner
- Complete timed transfer of diver from water exit to offsite chamber