{"id":155,"date":"2011-10-17T09:20:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/delta-p-hazards-guideline-for-diving-operations-updated"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:20:53","slug":"delta-p-hazards-guideline-for-diving-operations-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/delta-p-hazards-guideline-for-diving-operations-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta P Hazards Guideline for Diving Operations updated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guideline updated Oct 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Occupational Health and Safety statistics reveal that a very high proportion of occupational diving fatalities occur because of divers encounters with differential pressures at dams and other work sites.\u00a0 Furthermore the investigations of these tragic incidents indicate that the majority of these encounters were preventable.<\/p>\n<p>This guideline is primarily intended to assist owners, employers, diving supervisors and divers with a basic understanding of the forces associated with Delta P, methods in detecting Delta P hazards, lock out procedures, selection of appropriate diving equipment and procedures to prevent diver exposure to Delta P forces.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this guideline will also offer some guidance with respect to some limited rescue options, for a diver, from a delta P entrapment.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guidelines for Diving Operations where Delta P hazards may exist.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/downloads\/DeltaPHazards_CADC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the complete guideline HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guideline updated Oct 17, 2011 &nbsp; Occupational Health and Safety statistics reveal that a very high proportion of occupational diving fatalities occur because of divers encounters with differential pressures at dams and other work sites.\u00a0 Furthermore the investigations of these tragic incidents indicate that the majority of these encounters were preventable. This guideline is primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}