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The Search And Recovery Diving Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Improper gear
- lack of training
- 2. Pre-dive Safety Checks
- Incorrect equipment configuration
- faulty equipment
- 3. Onboard Safety Briefing
- Lack of knowledge
- language barrier
- 4. Water Entry
- Slip and falls
- injuries from diving platform
- 5. Descent
- Barotrauma
- nitrogen narcosis
- decompression sickness
- 6. Underwater Navigation
- Low visibility
- strong currents
- 7. Search & Recovery Activity
- Entanglement in ropes or debris
- drowning
- 8. Communications
- Misunderstandings due to poor signalling
- 9. Emergencies
- Inability to manage panic or emergencies
- 10. Ascent & Decompression
- Decompression sickness
- gas embolism
- 11. Water Exit
- Exhaustion
- slip and falls
- 12. Post-Dive Check & Debriefing
- Failure to address issues or incidents
- 13. Equipment Maintenance
- Improper maintenance causing equipment failure
- 14. Documentation & Reporting
- Inaccurate recording of dive times or depths
- 15. Health Monitoring
- Long term effects of diving e.g. dysbaric osteonecrosis
- 16. Training & Updates
- Out of date skills or knowledge
- 17. Fitness Evaluations
- Medical conditions or physical unfitness for diving
- 18. Environmental Considerations
- Marine life hazards
- water pollution
- 19. Transport & Handling of Equipment
- Injuries due to poor manual handling techniques
- 20. Decompression Chamber Operation
- Oxygen toxicity
- pressure-related injuries