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What is construction diving work?
What is not construction diving work?
Construction diving work means underwater diving work to assemble, construct, demolish, dismantle, install, clean, inspect, maintain, remove, repair, salvage, sample, search for, photograph, film, video or make a sound recording of certain things:
- a building
- a bridge
- a pile or a structure supported by piles
- a jetty, pontoon, wharf, mooring or slipway
- a navigational aid
- a pipe, cable or tunnel
- scaffolding, whether or not for use with a building
- a drilling rig
- an oil or gas well platform
- a weir or the structure or machinery of a dam or other artificial water storage, other than a swimming pool or aquarium
- a craft or vehicle for use in, on or above water or land.
Construction diving work also includes underwater diving work associated with dredging, reclamation of land or other earthworks.
What is not construction diving work?
Construction diving work does not include underwater diving work:
- for inspecting, sampling, photographing, filming, videoing or making a sound recording for:
- the entertainment or publishing industry
- tourism
- the print or electronic media
- art
- genuine scientific research
- scientific management of natural resources (eg. scientific management of the Great Barrier Reef or fish stocks)
- for inspecting, sampling, photographing, filming, videoing or making a sound recording of:
- a protected object under the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 (PDF, 529 KB)
- an object to decide its cultural heritage significance under that Act
- an historic relic or historic shipwreck under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 (Cwlth)
- for photographing, filming, videoing or making a sound recording while and for the purpose of conducting recreational diving or recreational technical diving, or training to go recreational diving or recreational technical diving
- for photographing, filming, videoing or making a sound recording of persons doing recreational diving or recreational technical diving if the photographing, filming, videoing or sound recording is to be used for a souvenir
- done in a marina or the ocean for cleaning, inspecting, maintaining or searching for a vessel or mooring solely or mainly used in the tourism industry.
Last updated 21 August 2008
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