Safety Caring for your business
Caring for your business
BY FRANCOIS BURMAN
The DAN-SA HIRA Programme promotes a culture of safety at diving businesses. With proper care of your business, your clients will be assured that you are serious about safety. n the previous hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA) articles, we set the stage and also covered the essential resources for running a sustainable, safe and reliable business. The last element to consider is the actual business of diving, be it training, tourism, or open- or closed-water diving. Having ensured that we have the right people and the right facilities, we now need to ensure that we head for the right water. There are four key elements to consider in preparing for and launching into any water, namely the training room, the training pool, transportation to the dive site (by land, air or water), and finally transfers at and from the dive site, including those from shore or from a dive boat before, during or after diving. Once again we apply the HIRA process to ensure the safety of all participants, including supervisors and instructors, students, skippers and support staff members.
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