Dive plans play a crucial role in ensuring the health and safety of participants engaged in diving activities. WorkCover Queensland emphasizes the importance of dive plans in implementing control measures determined through the risk management process.

For general diving work, the dive supervisor at WorkCover Queensland is responsible for preparing a comprehensive dive plan. This plan encompasses the method of executing the diving work, the assigned tasks and duties for each participant, details about diving equipment, breathing gases, and procedural guidelines. Additionally, it includes relevant information such as dive times, bottom times, decompression profiles, identified hazards, and corresponding risk control measures, along with emergency procedures.

To ensure the effective implementation of the dive plan, the diving work must be carried out in alignment with the plan, taking reasonable practicability into account. Before commencing the diving work, the dive supervisor is obligated to brief workers on the dive plan, and a readily accessible copy of the plan must be available to all workers.

WorkCover Queensland emphasizes the importance of retaining the dive plan and making it available for inspection until the completion of the diving work or for a period of two years in case of a notifiable incident.

In the context of high-risk diving work, WorkCover Queensland specifies that a dive plan conforming to the relevant sections of AS/NZS 2299.1: 2015 Occupational diving operations – Standard operational practice must be prepared and maintained.