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The Surface Supplied Diving Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Inadequate safety checks
- Equipment malfunction
- 2. Pre-dive Briefing
- Incorrect Instructions
- Communication breakdown
- 3. Donning Dive Gear
- Gear failure
- Physiological stress
- 4. Entering the Water
- Slip or fall
- Adverse water conditions
- 5. Descent and Bottom Time
- Decompression illness
- Oxygen toxicity
- 6. Ascent
- Rapid ascent
- Nitrogen narcosis
- 7. Post-Dive Procedures
- Decompression sickness
- Equipment damage/failure
- 8. Debriefing
- Miscommunication
- Incomplete information
- 9. Cleaning and Storage
- Chemical exposure
- Skin injury from cleaning solutions
- 10. Emergency Procedures
- Delay in rescue response
- First aid failures
- 11. Regular Maintenance Checks
- Mechanical failures
- Skill inadequacy in engagement
- 12. Operation of diving systems
- System Malfunction
- Lack of competency
- 13. Hazardous marine life encounter
- Bites
- Stings
- 14. Underwater navigation
- Loss of direction
- Impaired visibility
- 15. Communication system operation
- Miscommunication
- Equipment failure
- 16. Gas management system operation
- Gas leakage
- Insufficient gas supply
- 17. Depth control
- Uncontrolled descent/ascent
- Barotrauma
- 18. Diver recovery
- Inadequate lifting equipment
- Incorrect technique
- 19. Support vessel operation
- Collision
- Inclement weather effect
- 20. Post-dive health checks
- Overlooked complications
- Fatigue