This page provides access to information relating to the Diving Industry.
Diving at work covers a wide range of activities from deep saturation diving in support of the offshore oil and gas industry to recreational instruction by a professional instructor. The “diving industry” can be considered as a number of sectors where people need to go underwater to work. With the exception of the recreational sector, diving is primarily a method of getting to a work site that happens to be underwater.
These pages contain information that may be sector specific as well as that which is of interest to all those involved in diving at work.
Diving is considered to be a high hazard activity. In the 8 year period from 1996/97 to 2003/04 there were 24 fatal accidents. Many of these were members of the public undergoing recreational diving training with paid instructors. However, the risks can be significantly reduced by adhering to regulations and adopting established good practice.
HSE seeks a significant and sustained reduction in fatal and major accidents across all sectors of the diving industry. The following pages explain what HSE is doing to achieve this as well as providing access to a range of information about health and safety in the diving industry.
