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The Cold Water Diving Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Inadequate personal protective equipment
- improper dive planning
- 2. Equipment check
- Faulty equipment
- lack of redundancy in equipment
- 3. Entry into Water
- Slips
- trips and falls
- cold shock response
- 4. Underwater communication
- Equipment failure
- inadequate signal understanding
- 5. Diving
- Depth miscalculation
- hypothermia
- low visibility
- 6. Submerged operations
- Caught/crushed by equipment
- entrapment
- 7. Decompression
- Decompression sickness
- gas toxicity
- 8. Emergence from water
- Excessive exertion
- slips
- trips and falls
- 9. Post Dive Procedures
- Mismanaged equipment storage
- breathing issues post dive
- 10. Emergency Management
- Delayed response to emergency situations
- unavailability of resuscitation measures
- 11. Debriefing
- Non-reporting of hazards faced during diving
- incorrect feedback provided
- 12. Equipment Maintenance
- Improper maintenance leading to equipment malfunction
- 13. Record Keeping
- Non-recording of incidents
- non-availability of data for future reference
- 14. Training
- Miscommunication during training
- not comprehending risks associated with each task
- 15. Overall Operation Evaluation
- Lack of regular checks and audits
- complacency towards safety procedures