LIQUIVISION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

By: Rick Waldinger

36 COR 40-6335 [¶ 21,542]

CONFINED SPACES – WRITTEN PERMIT SPACE PROGRAM
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 5157(c)(4) (2009) - Employer failed to develop and implement a written permit space program for its commercial divers who worked in a permit-required confined space, a tarp-covered enclosed reservoir containing water.  

CONFINED SPACES - PERMIT SYSTEM
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 5157(e)(1) (2009) - Employer failed to document an entry permit prior to its divers’ entry into a reservoir via a hatch.

CONFINED SPACES - RESCUE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 5157(k)(1) (2009) - Employer allowed its dive employees to enter a permit-required confined space without ensuring that at least one standby person at the site was trained and immediately available to perform rescue and emergency services. 

DIVING OPERATIONS - HOSE TENDING REQUIRMENT
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 6056(b)(2)(C) (2009) - Employer failed to ensure that a standby diver equipped with surface-supplied gear or a pair of scuba divers was present to hose tend at the underwater point of entry during diving operations conducted in an enclosed space.

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