DMAC Guidance

The work of the Diving Medical Advisory Committee is reflected in its series of guidance notes concerning various aspects of diving and diving medical practice. All current guidance is available for downloading free of charge - see the list of documents below, which includes details of superseded and withdrawn publications.

Printed Versions

While all DMAC guidance is available for download free of charge from this website, printed copies are also available, either individually or as a composite printed volume. Please visit the website of IMCA - the International Marine Contractors Association, where you will find full details on ordering.

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	Code	Title	Current	Date
	DMAC 01	Aide-mémoire for recording and transmission of medical data to shore		1984
	DMAC 02	In-water diver monitoring		Feb 1979
	DMAC 03	Accidents with high-pressure water jets		Jan 1981
	DMAC 04	Recommendations on partial pressure of O2 in bail-out bottles		Jan 1981
	DMAC 05	Recommendation on minimum level of O2 in helium supplied offshore		Jan 1981
	DMAC 06	The effects of sonar transmission on commercial diving activities	Rev. 1	Jun 2010
	DMAC 07	Recommendations for flying after diving	Rev. 1	Mar 2001
	DMAC 08	Thermal stress in relation to diving (Report of a workshop held in March 1981)		Mar 1981
	DMAC 09	Fitness to dive after neurological decompression sickness		Jun 1982
*	DMAC 10	Medical standards for ADS pilots, submersible crew and passengers
	DMAC 11	Provision of first aid and the training of divers, supervisors and members of dive teams in first aid	Rev. 1	Nov 2001
	DMAC 12	Safe diving distance from seismic surveying operations	Rev. 1	Jul 2011
	DMAC 13	Guidance on assessing fitness to return to diving after decompression illness	Rev. 1	Oct 1994
*	DMAC 14	Medical equipment to be held at the site of a diving operation	DMAC 15
	DMAC 15	Medical equipment to be held at the site of an offshore diving operation	Rev. 3	Jan 2012
*	DMAC 16	Saturation chamber hygiene	DMAC 26
	DMAC 17	The training and refresher training of doctors involved in the examination and treatment of professional divers		Dec 1985
	DMAC 18	Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Commercial Diving	Rev. 1	Dec 2010
	DMAC 19	The effects of water vapour on diver physiology	Rev. 1	Nov 1990
	DMAC 20	Duration of bell lockouts	Rev. 1	Nov 1997
	DMAC 21	Guidance on the duration of saturation exposures and surface intervals between saturations	Rev. 2	Jun 2006
	DMAC 22	Proximity to a recompression chamber after surfacing		Oct 1992
	DMAC 23	The use of heliox in treating decompression sickness		Nov 1993
	DMAC 24	Differential diagnosis		Nov 1993
*	DMAC 25	Recommendations for the provision of emergency care for the seriously ill or injured diver when in saturation	DMAC 28
	DMAC 26	Saturation diving chamber hygiene		Jun 1995
*	DMAC 27	An industry standard for the provision of equipment for emergency medical care in saturation diving systems	DMAC 28
	DMAC 28	The provision of emergency medical care for divers in saturation	Rev. 1	Dec 2003
	DMAC 29	Approval of diving medicine courses	Rev. 1	Dec 2006
	DMAC 30	Management in divers of osteonecrosis at Ficat stage 1		Jan 2007
	DMAC 31	Accelerated emergency decompression (AED) from saturation		Mar 2013
	Workshop	Accelerated emergency decompression from saturation in commercial diving operations: Report of a workshop held on 13 April 2011 in London, UK		Mar 2013

* = Document withdrawn and supserseded by that noted to the right.

Position statements - The committee has also issued the following statements of position:

• DMAC Statement on Commercial Diving and Health (October 2006)
• DMAC Statement on Health Surveillance of Commercial Divers (April 2008)
• DMAC Statement on Exercise Testing in Medical Assessment of Commercial Divers (October 2009)
• DMAC Statement on Requirement for Air Diving to 50 msw in Commercial Diver Training (March 2013)
• DMAC Statement on Deep Saturation Diving (April 2013)

Page updated April 2013