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Medical Clearance
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Medical Clearance
A clearance issued by Diving Hyperbaric Medical Services, PO Box 32 139, Devonport, Auckland, the unit that maintains an occupational diving medical database, stating the diver’s medical fitness to perform underwater work, and will remain valid for a period of no more than 12 months. Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceDiving Medical Consultant (DMC)
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Diving Medical Consultant (DMC)
Person in charge of the Diving Hyperbaric Medical Unit. The issuer of occupational diving medicals. Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceDive Supervisor
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Dive Supervisor
A dive supervisor shall be a diver who is not necessarily fit to dive provided that a level of fitness required for the responsibilities undertaken is maintained. The dive supervisor will be trained and experienced in the dive techniques and equipment being used in the dive operation. He or she will be appointed in writing by the employer, will be on site at all times and will also hold appropriate first aid qualifications in the management of diving-related medical problems relevant to the level of diving operation being carried out. Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceDHMS
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DHMS
Diving Hyperbaric Medical Services. Based at PO Box 32 139, Devonport, Auckland. email: divemeds@gmail.com. web: https://www.divemedical.co.nz Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceDivers’ Emergency Service (DES)
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Divers’ Emergency Service (DES)
Divers’ Emergency Service (DES): 0800 4DES 111 or 0800 4337 111 Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceDesignated Diving Doctor (DDD)
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Designated Diving Doctor (DDD)
A medical practitioner holding a current registration with the Medical Council of NZ who has undertaken a recognised training course in underwater hyperbaric medicine, and is competent to carry out medical examinations for occupational divers. (A current list of DDDs is available on the Departments website http://www.osh.dol.govt.nz/ services/diving/doctors.shtml) Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceConstruction Diving
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Construction Diving
Construction diving includes any work taking place underwater in connection with the alteration, cleaning, construction, demolition, dismantling, erection, installation, maintenance, removal, renewal or repair of any building, edifice or structure or wall. Includes work in any canal, harbour works, drainage system, flood control, irrigation system, river control, culvert, dam, pipeline, reservoir and includes any work on a buoy, obstruction to navigation, raft, ship and wreck. Also includes any inspection or other work carried out for the purpose of ascertaining if construction diving work is to be carried out. Police, Military, Customs and specialised search and rescue diving groups are considered part of this category due to the highly hazardous nature of this underwater work and the frequent involvement in construction diving activities. (This group is expected to hold at least a Part 2 Restricted certificate.) Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceCertificate Of Competence (COC)
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Certificate Of Competence (COC)
A certificate issued by OSH that authorises the holder to dive in the category of diving in which the employee is diving and will be issued in accordance with regulations 27, 31 and 32 of the HSE Regulations 1995. Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceCertificate Of Competence (COC)
Certificate of competence means a certificate of one of the kinds referred to in regulation 16. Source: Health and Safety in Employment (Mining Administration) Regulations 1996, SR 1996/220, New Zealand, as of January 2011. RegulationsAll Practicable Steps
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All Practicable Steps
Employers have a general duty to take all practicable steps to ensure the safety of employees (section 6). In particular, they are required to take all practicable steps to: • Provide and maintain a safe working environment; • Provide and maintain facilities for the safety and health of employees at work; • Ensure that machinery and equipment is safe for employees; • Ensure that working arrangements are not hazardous to employees; and • Provide procedures to deal with emergencies that may arise while employees are at work. Taking “all practicable steps” means doing what is reasonably able to be done in the circumstances, taking into account: • The severity of any injury or harm to health that may occur; • The degree of risk or probability of that injury or harm occurring; • How much is known about the hazard and the ways of eliminating, reducing or controlling it; and • The availability, effectiveness and cost of possible safeguards. An employer or other person is only required to take “all practicable steps” in relation to circumstances that they know, or ought reasonably to know about (section 2A). Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory GuidanceAll Practicable Steps
Taking “all practicable steps” means doing what is reasonably able to be done in the circumstances, taking into account: • The severity of any injury or harm to health that may occur; • The degree of risk or probability of that injury or harm occurring; • How much is known about the hazard and the ways of eliminating, reducing or controlling it; and • The availability, effectiveness and cost of the possible safeguards. Source: Approved Code of Practice for Managing Hazards to Prevent Major Industrial Accidents, Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Department of Labour, New Zealand, July 1994. Regulatory GuidanceAll Practicable Steps
(1) In this Act, all practicable steps, in relation to achieving any result in any circumstances, means all steps to achieve the result that it is reasonably practicable to take in the circumstances, having regard to— (a) the nature and severity of the harm that may be suffered if the result is not achieved; and (b) the current state of knowledge about the likelihood that harm of that nature and severity will be suffered if the result is not achieved; and (c) the current state of knowledge about harm of that nature; and (d) the current state of knowledge about the means available to achieve the result, and about the likely efficacy of each of those means; and (e) the availability and cost of each of those means. (2) To avoid doubt, a person required by this Act to take all practicable steps is required to take those steps only in respect of circumstances that the person knows or ought reasonably to know about. Source: Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Public Act 1992 No 96, New Zealand, as of 1 July 2011. LegislationA.D.A.S.
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A.D.A.S. The Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme. Source: Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004, Occupational Safety and Health Service, New Zealand, updated October 2010. Regulatory Guidance
VHF Radiotelephony Device For The Aeronautical Service
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VHF Radiotelephony Device For The Aeronautical Service
VHF radiotelephony device for the aeronautical service: a radiotelephony device for use on the channels intended for the aeronautical service in the frequency band between 118 and 137 MHz. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsVHF-DSC Watch Receiver
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VHF-DSC Watch Receiver
VHF-DSC watch receiver: a radio-electric receiver suitable for maintain a continuous DSC watch on channel 70. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsTotal Oil Content
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Total Oil Content
Total oil content: the sum of the disperged and dissolved oil content of an oil containing mixture. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsTelecommunications Device
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Telecommunications Device
Telecommunications device: a device or set of devices intended for the transfer, transmission or receipt of data of any kind whatsoever by means of cables, via a radio-electric pathway or by means of optical or other electromagnetic systems. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsSynthetic Fluid
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Synthetic Fluid
Synthetic fluid: an organic fluid originated at the synthesis of oils of animal, plant or mineral origin. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsSuspended Casing
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Suspended Casing
Suspended casing: casing that does not completely run to the surface of the earth. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsSea Floor
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Sea Floor
Interface between the sea and the seabed. Source:API RP 2EQ, Seismic Design Procedures and Criteria for Offshore Structures, First Edition, November 2014. Global StandardsSea Floor
interface between the sea and the seabed. [ISO 19901-4:2003] Source: API RP 2MET, Derivation of Metocean Design and Operating Conditions, First Edition, November 2014. Global StandardsSea Floor
The term “sea floor” shall in this part also be understood to mean: the bottom of the surface water. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsSea Area A2
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Sea Area A2
Sea area A2: an area, with the exception of sea area A1, within the radiotelephony range of at least one MF radio coastal station, in which continuous DSC alarm signaling is available. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsUntreated Sewage
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Untreated Sewage
Untreated Sewage means sewage that has not been treated by a type approved sewage treatment plant, or that has not been comminuted and disinfected. Source: Resolution MEPC.173(58), Guidelines for ballast water sampling (G2), 10 October 2008, International Maritime Organization. Regulatory GuidanceSea Area A1
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Sea Area A1
Sea area A1: an area within the radiotelephony range of at least one VHF radio coastal station, in which continuous DSC alarm signaling is available. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsOil Fuel
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Oil Fuel
“Oil fuel” means any oil used as fuel oil in connection with the propulsion and auxiliary machinery of the ship in which such oil is carried. <Annex 1, regulation 12A>. Source: Resolution MEPC.141(54), amendments to the Annex of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (Amendments to regulation 1, addition to regulation 12A, consequential amendments to the IOPP Certificate and amendments to regulation 21 of the revised Annex I of MARPOL 73/78), 24 March 2006, International Maritime Organization. LegislationRadiotelephony Device
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Radiotelephony Device
Radiotelephony device: a radio-electric transceiver including the antenna device and the power supply unit. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsProduction Tree (X-Mas Tree)
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Production Tree (X-Mas Tree)
Production tree (X-mas tree): above soil finishing with shutoff valves and lateral outlet ports, whether or not integrated, that is installed after the borehole has been constructed. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsPressurized Series Of Tubing
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Pressurized Series Of Tubing
Pressurized series of tubing: tubing meant to manage contained pressures form the borehole. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsPow
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Pow
Pow: the partition coefficient of a substance between N-octanol and water, measured or calculated in accordance with the HOCNF form. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsPEC/PNEC Ratio
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PEC/PNEC Ratio
PEC/PNEC ratio: the generic ratio between the expected concentration in the marine environment and the concentration without expected effects of chemicals, calculated in accordance with the CHARM model, based on standard discharges. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsOspar Treaty
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Ospar Treaty
Ospar treaty: treaty w.r.t. the protection of the marine environment in the Northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean, with appendices and schedules (Trb 1992, 16 and Trb 1993, 141). Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsOspar Convention
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Ospar Convention
Ospar Convention: the Convention referred to in Article 9.1.1.d. Source: Mining Regulation of the Netherlands, WJZ 02063603, Netherlands,16 December 2002. RegulationsNOx Reduction Rate η
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NOx Reduction Rate η
"NOx reduction rate η" means a value deriving from the following formula. Unit of η is (%).
Source: Resolution MEPC.198(62), 2011 Guidelines addressing additional aspects to the NOx Technical Code 2008 with regard to particular requirements related to marine diesel engines fitted with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Systems, 15 July 2011, International Maritime Organization. Regulatory Guidance