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    <CFRTITLE>46</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Shipping</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>7</VOL>
    <DATE>1998-10-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>1998-10-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>First aid and treatment equipment.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>197.314</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 197.314</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="5"/>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="4"/>
      <PARENT HEADING="SUBCHAPTER V" SEQ="3">MARINE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 197" SEQ="2">GENERAL PROVISIONS</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart B" SEQ="1">Commercial Diving Operations</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="0">Equipment</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 197.314</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>First aid and treatment equipment.</SUBJECT>
    <P>(a) Each dive location must have—</P>
    <P>(1) A medical kit approved by a physician that consists of—</P>
    <P>(i) Basic first aid supplies; and</P>
    <P>(ii) Any additional supplies necessary to treat minor trauma and illnesses resulting from hyperbaric exposure;</P>
    <P>(2) A copy of an American Red Cross Standard First Aid handbook;</P>
    <P>(3) A bag-type manual resuscitator with transparent mask and tubing; and</P>
    <P>(4) A capability to remove an injured diver from the water.</P>
    <P>(b) Each diving installation must have a two-way communications system to obtain emergency assistance except when the vessel or facility ship-to-shore, two-way communications system is readily available.</P>
    <P>(c) Each dive location supporting mixed-gas dives, dives deeper than 130 fsw, or dives outside the no-decompression limits must meet the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section and have—</P>
    <P>(1) A decompression chamber;</P>
    <P>(2) Decompression and treatment tables;</P>
    <P>(3) A supply of breathing gases sufficient to treat for decompression sickness;</P>
    <P>(4) The medical kit required by paragraph (a)(1) of this section that is—</P>
    <P>(i) Capable of being carried into the decompression chamber; and</P>
    <P>(ii) Suitable for use under hyperbaric conditions; and<PRTPAGE P="394"/>
    </P>
    <P>(5) A capability to assist an injured diver into the decompression chamber.</P>
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