Absorbing the huge amount legislation is a major challenge in passing Supervisor & Life Support course.

It is often necessary to develop strategies on how to successfully absorb the ‘correct’ information to pass your exam.

• IMCA D022. Guidance for Diving Supervisors Manual
• Norsok U100 Rev 5
• IMCA LST Statment 2020

Study Guide

In preparation for the exams, candidates are required to have a thorough knowledge of the relevant IMCA documentation. The core documents which all candidates are required to be thoroughly familiar with are the latest revisions of:

• IMCA international code of practice for offshore diving   IMCA D014 Rev-2.1
• IMCA D017 Lost Bell Survival
• IMCA-D-023-Diving Equipment Systems Inspection for surface orientated (air) diving systems
• IMCA D024 DESIGN for saturation (bell) diving systems
• Installation based diving operations and the evacuation of divers from installations   IMCA D025
•   Norway/UK regulatory guidance on offshore diving (NURGOD)   IMCA D034
• IMCA D036 Neurological Assessment of a Diver
• IMCA D041 Battery Operated Equipment in Hyperbaric Conditions
• Code of practice for the use of high pressure jetting equipment by divers   IMCA D049
• IMCA D050-Minimum Quantities of Gas Required Offshore
• IMCA D052 Hyperbaric Evacuation Systems
• Guidelines for lifting operations IMCA D 060
• Guidance on health, fitness and medical issues in diving operations   IMCA D061
• Diver and diving supervisor certification (IMCA D 01/18) IMCA-Briefing-1394
• DMAC 001 Aide Mémoire for Recording and Transmission of Medical Data
• DMAC 007 Recommendations for Flying After Diving
• DMAC 13. Fitness to Return to Diving after Decompression Illness
• DMAC 15. Medical Equipment to be Held at the Site of an Offshore Diving Operation
• DMAC 022 Proximity to a Recompression Chamber after Surfacing
• Saturation diving chamber hygiene DMAC 26
• Provision of emergency medical care for divers in saturation DMAC 28

Other relevant information

• All published IMCA videos are available to stream online and it would be helpful for LST candidates to review all relevant IMCA videos as part of their preparation for the IMCA examination. A link to the IMCA videos is shown below: https://www.youtube.com/user/IMCAint/videos.
• Candidates should also be familiar with the latest revision of the US Navy Diving Manual and the use of US Navy Decompression Tables and procedures (currently see USN Manual Volume 2, Chapters 8 & 9). They should also be very familiar with the USN guidance on dealing with Hazardous Marine Creatures and the injuries they may cause (see Appendix 5C in the current USN Diving Manual).The US Navy Manual is available as a free download from: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/SUPSALV/Diving/US%20DIVING%20MANUAL_REV7.pdf?ve r=2017-01-11-102354-39

Legislation

Candidates who wish to sit the optional legislation modules should be familiar with the following:

The list of approved diving qualifications for offshore diving; https://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/qualifications/approved-list.pdf

UK legislation – Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR 2013)(see INDG 453 https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg453.pdf)

HSE Commercial Diving Projects Offshore Approved Code of Practice L103(https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l103.htm)

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974: Sections 2-9 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37/pdfs/ukpga_19740037_en.pdfHSE documents are available as free downloads at: https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/index-catalogue.htm#