DAN Safety Services works to help dive professionals and dive business owners mitigate risks, prevent accidents, and manage dive-related injuries through a variety of programs and channels, including publications, e-learning courses, free phone consultations, online tools, safety products, and first aid training. Through these programs DAN works to support the dive community and ensure that divers everywhere can enjoy the underwater world as safely as possible.
DAN’s Safety Tips For Dive Operators Guide was developed to help dive operators and professionals gain a better understanding of the risks inherent to their operations. It outlines minimum safety standards for various aspects of dive operations. It also provides a foundation for refining safety protocols by offering dive safety officers and other dive pros a tested approach for assessing safety and modifying practices to prevent incidents and limit liability.
DAN’s Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) program is designed to help owners, operators, staff and dive professionals identify hazards before they lead to injuries or losses. Focusing on realistic and pragmatic assessments of risks that could lead to serious outcomes, the program provides self-assessment tools and resources to increase awareness of essential safety issues and how to address them.
Online as well as live learning opportunities are available to all engaged in diving operations, providing essential education and knowledge to ensure safe dive operations.
Our safety resources, free to all, include a range of downloadable publications, advisories, checklists and other useful documents.