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Some divers are required by law to have an ADAS certificate before they can enter the occupational diving workforce.  Others, however, are not legally obliged to have one.  Why should these divers spend the time, money and effort to gain an ADAS qualification?

• Provides the legally required entry qualification necessary to work in onshore construction diving, the offshore oil and gas industry and aquaculture diving in South Australia;

• For divers in diving sectors not subject to legal entry requirements – provides a credible qualification which is recognised all over Australia and internationally and that provides entry to occupational diving throughout the world.

• For all divers, provides a structured career path which allows the diver to enter the industry at the bottom as a rookie and progress through all aspects of active diving up to and including mixed gas and closed bell operations - with an exit path for those who don’t want to, or can’t, continue getting wet through graduation into supervising other divers and/or managing diving projects.

• Provides recognition and reward for the academic aspects of the diver’s efforts with vocational qualifications that can be used to gain credit towards further vocational, tertiary or post-tertiary study.

• For dive supervisors, the matter is even more critical, as they assume substantial responsibility and liability when they take on their role, especially in the present litigious environment where civil claims are being brought every day before the courts.  ADAS supervisor training and assessment is specifically designed to provide supervisors with the credible skills and knowledge with which to undertake their role, especially in the area of accident and emergency management, and equips them with with the  competencies necessary to minimise risks to their divers and themselves.

• For the employer/contractor, ensuring that all diving staff are ADAS qualified goes a long way to providing a credible means of demonstrating compliance with their legal duty of care. Under the law, employers must provide employees with any instruction and training necessary to ensure their health and safety.  ADAS’s externally validated and quality controlled operations, training and assessment and best practice standards is specifically developed to provide exactly this. Employers who are aware and concerned about their duties and responsibilities under the law will always, therefore, employ ADAS-certified divers.

• 3^rd party employers, (eg, a government water board letting a contract to a diving contractor) also have a duty of care under the law.  For them, ADAS provides a credible means of ensuring that a diving contractor is compliant with best practice and with the law and lessens or may even negate consequential liability for the 3rd party employer.  This means that 3rd part employers who are aware and concerned about their duties and responsibilities under the law will always specify that divers must be  ADAS-qualified in their tender documents.

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