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Cadc Mag Summer 2017 The official magazine of the Canadian Association of CADC Diving Contractors Magazine Summer 2017 Bill C-45 Keeps Your Head Above Water: Protecting the Diver and the Client in INSIDE: Underwater Going Nuclear: Remaining Operations Calm, Practical and Competent Choosing a Diving Company CADC Initiates Diving Safety Self-Audit Program Canada Post Publications Agreement Number 40609661 contents UP FRONT 4 A Message from the President of the CADC 5 Notes from the Executive Director of the CADC CADC Magazine 6 Why You Should Be a Part of the Published for: CADC The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 7 Become a Member 6382 Coachford Way Mississauga, Ontario L5N 3V8 Doug Elsey, P.Eng., Executive Director A CLOSER LOOK Phone: (905) 542-7410 | Fax: (905) 567-6703 [email protected] 9 Liability on the Job Site: Who’s in www.cadc.ca the Line of Fire? Printed by: Matrix Group Publishing Inc. 309 Youville Street FEATURE STORIES Winnipeg, MB R2H 2S9 13 Going Nuclear: Diving in a Toll-free: (866) 999-1299 Radioactive Environment Toll-free fax: (866) 244-2544 [email protected] 15 Hiring the Professional Diving www.matrixgroupinc.net Contractor: The Bottom Line President & CEO Jack Andress CADC MEMBER PROJECT Operations Manager SPOTLIGHTS Shoshana Weinberg [email protected] 19 Advanced Subsea Services: Publishers Inspecting the North Surrey Jessica Potter Interceptor Sanitary Sewer Peter Schulz 21 Canadian Working Divers Editor-in-Chief Institute: Celebrating 25 Years of Shannon Savory [email protected] Training Divers Senior Editor Alexandra Walld IMAGES OF INNOVATION [email protected] 23 Our Members at Work Finance/Administration Pat Andress, Nathan Redekop, Lloyd Weinberg [email protected] NEWS Director of Circulation & Distribution 25 CADC Initiates Phase 1 of Diving Lloyd Weinberg Safety Self-Audit Program [email protected] 27 Diver’s Safety: Evaluating CSA Sales Manager – Winnipeg Dive Standards Neil Gottfred 29 CADC Membership Listings Sales Manager – Hamilton Jeff Cash 2017 Sales Team Leader Colleen Bell 30 Buyer’s Guide Matrix Group Publishing Inc. Account Executives Andrew Lee, Bonnie Petrovsky, Brian MacIntyre, Cameron Mills, Cheryl Klassen, Chris Smith, Courtney Murphy, David MacDonald, Frank Kenyeres, Jim Hamilton, Kallie Herod, Matt Potts, Renée Kent, Rob Gibson, Sandra Kirby, Tanina Di Piazza Advertising Design James Robinson Layout & Design ON THE COVER: This issue’s cover features Kayti Taylor Dave Dalzell floating on the surface at the Naval Base in Victoria, BC, for the Base’s ©2017 Matrix Group Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without new pier installation. PHOTO CREDIT: Ken the prior written permission of the publisher. The opinions Babineau / Freelancer at Fraser Burrard expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of Matrix Diving Ltd. Group Publishing Inc. Printed in Canada. The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 3 up front A Message from the President of the CADC All stop! The 2017 diving season, the standards we work so hard for. They by all reports, promises to be strong in simply make our industry safer. most Canadian regions. The timing for Having sat as a second-term this issue of CADC Magazine could not president for the CADC, I can attest be better, as the focus is all about taking that this position becomes a focal point care of the divers at the end of the hose when health and safety issues arise and working topside. within our industry. Over the past few The Canadian Association of Diving weeks, I worked with a BC diver who Contractors (CADC) has provided to may well be experiencing the ill effects the industry a guideline checklist for of decompression illness (DCI). The compliance to the CSA Z275.2 Diving unfortunate side of the story is that upon Standards (available on the website) surfacing, the diver was manifesting signs to assess your diving operation. As and symptoms of DCI and the supervisor a condition of membership, CADC on-site made a decision not to attend members comply with these standards to the health and safety concerns of the as a minimum. Anyone—not just diver. Our divers deserve better than members—involved in the industry are what happened to this young man. encouraged to follow them. We all need to continue to press for With a humble approach to the the CSA Standards to be provincially process, it would be hard to believe accepted across Canada. Harmonization that we all couldn’t do something to of the standards will unequivocally make improve our operations and work further our industry safer—for the diver, for the to ensure we are in full compliance with contractor and for the client! Vern Johnston, CADC President PHOTO CREDIT: Simon Leroy. 4 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 up front Notes from the Executive Director of the CADC “There are old divers, and there are bold divers, but there are very few old, bold divers.” our industry. As educated as the diving deal with challenges, like working in a industry is about safety, there are still flowing sanitary sewer deemed a Hazmat holdouts who cut safety to lower costs environment not suitable for human to win a bid. Clients—many ignorant occupancy. of legislated safety standards and Diver education and training has PHOTO CREDIT: D. Geddes. guidelines—only see money and hire been conducted at the Canadian Doug Elsey, P.Eng. CADC Executive Director the lowest bidder, figuring if something Working Divers Institute (CWDI) facility happens during a dive operation, it is the in Chapleau, ON for the last 25 years. Commercial diving and the contractor’s problem. Nothing could be Well-known for its approach to training supply of underwater services is a further from the reality of who is at fault if techniques, Gord Hay fills us in on what’s serious business. Things have come there is an accident. Bill C-45 exists. new at CWDI. A tough boot camp for a long way, from “the good ol’ days” In Canada, Bill C-45 is a legal divers comes to mind! This school is hardhat diver, to the introduction requirement about protecting the unique and puts out damn good people! of SCUBA in commercial operations, worker. No doubt, our industry has its This issue also talks about guidelines to lightweight gear, to mixed gas, inherent risks, which are mitigated by risk for hiring the professional diving to offshore gear. Lots of changes analysis of stakeholders in the project. contractor—all diving contractors and evolution. Of course, there was Everyone from diver to diver supervisor are not alike. Doing your homework (sometimes, still is) the day of surface to the client is involved. What happens on who you hire can mitigate serious supplied diving with a two-man dive if it is ignored? In many cases, the client issues if something goes wrong. Bill C-45 crew! may not know the risks involved and violations are serious. Compliance to CSA One incident (I’d like to forget, circa see only the lowest bid. Or they ignore Dive Standards is a good first step. the 1970s) was when I received a call the risks. Dave Geddes enlightens us As of January 1, 2017, CADC initiated from the dive site, where the diver about the statutes in Bill C-45 and the the first phase of its Diving Safety Self- tender, out of breath, reported his diver, implications of ignoring the law. It is Audit Program, which is based on current whom he was tending from shore, had about the seriousness of not protecting CSA diving standards recognized as his hose trapped under a pile he had the worker, deliberately or by ignorance. one of the best minimal diving safety just finished cutting off. No standby It is a criminal offence with far-reaching standards available nationally and diver. No cell phone (he called from a implications, including imprisonment, for internationally. Read what it is all about. pay phone!), and I was 45 minutes away, a client and all involved in the operation. This issue will be distributed at the in the office. How was he going to get Protecting the diver in hazardous annual general meeting of the CSA the diver ashore, as the compressor was conditions includes special procedures Standards / Dive Committees in Halifax in low on fuel? Their solution was to move for diving in contaminated environments June. the compressor closer to shore to give such as nuclear plants. Jérôme Dion the diver more slack. The diver pulled in of the Mistras Group outlines the Editor’s note: As we go to press (June 2017), we more hose and surfaced on the far side procedures for diving in these conditions. learn the Nova Scotia Ministry of Labour has laid of the pile pinning his hose, dumped his Another contaminated environment is charges against a diving company involved in the helmet after removing his harness points, the topic of our project spotlight, which death of diver Luke Seabrook in July 2015. Will and swam ashore! Doing that was “legal” focuses on the team at Advanced Subsea there be convictions? How far does Bill C-45 go in at the time! In Canada, incidents like this Services and its work on the North determining responsibility of those involved? We fueled the upgrading of the CSA Dive Surrey Interceptor Sanitary Sewers. Learn will see. Diving is serious business. Be safe. Dive safe. Standards. about this project, including how they Protect your workers. It’s the law. The evolution of these CSA Dive Standards is covered by Ian Rodd, chairperson of the main technical Exceeding Expectations committee for the CSA Z275 Diving This January, the CADC launched the first phase of Standards.
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