IMCA Publishes New Guidance on Divers' Health, Fitness & Medical Issues
Monday 5 November 2018
The International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) newly published ‘Guidance on Health, Fitness and Medical Issues in Diving Operations’ (IMCA D 061) has been prepared in response to concerns about how best to address certain problematic diver health, fitness and medical issues identified by IMCA’s Diving Division members.
D 061, which includes pre and post diving medical check forms, has specific aims:
- Emphasise to divers that they have an obligation not to endanger themselves, or other members of the dive team, by:
- failing to declare significant health (medical fitness) issues to those in control of diving operations; or by
- allowing their levels of physical fitness to decline significantly;
- Encourage a culture of good health and high levels of physical fitness amongst divers;
- Provide diving contractors with information about options that can help them deal with commonly encountered diver health, fitness and medical issues; and
- Assist diving contractors seeking to develop arrangements for managing diver health, physical fitness and medical issues effectively.
Health, Fitness & Medical Issues in Diving Operations will also feature prominently in the Diving Session at IMCA’s Annual Seminar on 28 and 29 November in The Hague, The Netherlands.
D 061 is available on IMCA’s website at