DCBC updates and clarifies policy regarding recertification of divers every 5 years as per CSA Standard 275.4.
By CADC Admin ~ February 25th, 2013. Filed under: Latest Diving News, Safety.
The Diver Certification Board of Canada diver certification is a certificate that acknowledges that the holder is recognized as complying with the CSA Competencey Standard 275.4 . The certification is recognized nationally by most regulatory authorities and by all CADC member companies. They are also recognized world-wide, including companies associated with the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). One of the reasons for this recognition is the DCBC policy on continued proficiency.
To ensure continued proficiency all DCBC certificates must be renewed every five years. Renewal is based on demonstration of diving or supervisory activity in two of the previous five years.
DCBC has issued an updated policy of the renewal of DCBC certificates and has posted it on our website on their website HERE.
Graduates of DCBC accredited occupational dive schools are issued certificates for two years only. Upon completion of the two years, graduates may apply for renewal for a five year period. To ensure that they have not lost the skills they learned during their training, graduates must have completed at least 50 diving activities during their first two years of work following graduation. The activities may be diving or tending, but must include at least ten working dives.
CADC contractors are reminded that graduates of DCBC accredited schools at the Unrtestricted Surface Supplied Diver level are competent to work immediately upon graduation. They are not experienced, but they have demonstrated their ability to work in open water to depths including at least an hour at 165 feet.
