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briefing at the start of the project; additionally, specific safety briefings should be given on a daily basis, before work commences. Once the project is under way, the risk assessment should be reviewed frequently because as conditions change, different control measures may be triggered.
Emergency procedures
and contacts
Following closely upon the mitigating
measures set out in the risk assessment,
the emergency procedures section
details what should happen in case of
an accident or illness and the chain
of command in these instances. This
includes prehospital care relating to
different scenarios (such as cuts, ex-
treme seasickness, or decompression illness, for example). For clarity, the major or most serious life- threatening scenarios (such as an unconscious diver, burst lung or suspected decompression illness) and their treatment are best laid out in a flow chart. These scenarios should be reviewed prior to the beginning of diving operations.
To initiate emergency procedures, contact information of emergency transport services, hospitals, and decompression/treatment chambers should be listed. These should include the contacts for a search and rescue helicopter, the police, coastguard, fireservice or military, as appropriate. For best practice, all project participants should know where this contact information is kept on site every day. All medical paperwork of project participants should be on site during the diving operations, so that pre-existing conditions and personal contact information are known to emergency personnel.
Ideally, all crew members should be qualified first-aiders or should be certified in basic first-aid treatment as well as the operation of communication equipment. If not everyone is trained in these,
 © T. Maarleveld. List of emergency procedures on site. Without instruction not all project participants may be aware of the local emergency procedures and contacts. As these instructions
will not be memorized it is a
very good idea to simply place
a list of emergency numbers in appropriate places on site, at base, in the kitchen or the mess. Contacts for local doctors and contacts for individual project participants and their relatives can be added.
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