Current through 2024-46, November 13, 2024
Section 179-5-VIII - TrainingA. Each public safety diver shall possess, at a minimum, a nationally recognized diver certification.B. Each agency shall ensure dive team members are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), First Aid, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and the proper administration of oxygen, if licensed to do so.C. Dive team members shall be trained or certified proficient for the requirements of various dive operations for which they are assigned D. Training shall be commensurate with duties and type of dive operations, including, but not limited to:1. Use of tools and equipment 2. Techniques of diving 3. Emergency procedures 4. Hyperbaric conditions 5. Recordkeeping and log books 6. Watercraft operation12-179 C.M.R. ch. 5, § VIII