CADC UPDATING COMPLIANCE GUIDES FOR NEWEST CSA DIVE OPERATIONS STANDARD
By CADC Admin ~ May 20th, 2021. Filed under: CADC MAG, CADC Mag reprints, EDUCATION, Standards and Regulations.
The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors (CADC) is currently reviewing the most current version of the CSA’s Diving Operations standard (Z275.2-20) to highlight the changes and new requirements of in the standard.
“The new Z285.2-20 Occupational safety code for diving operations standard has some very important changes in its new edition. Significant changes in the edition include new provisions for SCUBA diving; clarification of minimum crew sizes based on risk assessment; expanded references to IMCA guidelines in the offshore; nitrox diving; and many other changes of importance”, said Dave Geddes – current CADC president.
“Our CADC members are – as a condition of membership – required to conduct diving operations using the current Z275. 2 Diving Operations standard as a minimum safety level. The members can always exceed these standards in their operations but can never operate below them. In 2018, we provided our members with a guideline to self-audit their operations for compliance to this standard. We later released this into the public domain for non-member diving companies and regulators to use as a check list against the standard.”, Geddes said.
The industry is calling for a “One Country / One Dive Standard” to be harmonized across the nation. Completion of the CADC document is expected to be Summer 2022 and to be distributed to current CADC members to aid in compliance.
