UK commercial diving contractors carry one of the heaviest compliance loads in the construction sector — DWR 1997 statute, IMCA best-practice, ACoP L103/L104, ISO 45001/9001/14001, IMCA D011 annual audit. This is what to ask when evaluating compliance software.
Most generic compliance platforms can be made to work for diving with enough configuration effort. Genuinely diving-aware software is rarer. Use these criteria to separate the two.
D018 §7.2 mandates 6-month / 12-month / 15-month / 2-year / 2.5-year / 4-year / 5-year / 10-year inspection cycles per equipment category, with a 30-day grace per §8.5. A platform that can't model that natively forces you to track cycles in Excel anyway.
The Diving at Work Regulations 1997 require dive records retained for two years minimum, with specific fields per dive (supervisor, team, max depth, bottom time, decompression table). Generic incident logs don't meet this; a dedicated logbook module does.
IMCA classifies signatories as Cat 1 (Supervisor), Cat 2 (Specialist Tech), Cat 3 (Class Society Surveyor), Cat 4 (OEM Test House). Every cert's signing authority must be auditable. A platform that records "John Smith" as the signer without category traceability fails the IMCA D011 audit on §4.5.
The annual D011 audit covers cert validity, PMS execution, modification register completeness, dive activity records, and CP signoffs. A weighted readiness score across all five — properly defaulting empty registers to 0% rather than 100% — saves days of pre-audit prep.
D018 §8.9 requires modifications to flag the affected equipment for re-certification. A platform that doesn't supersede the old cert AND auto-create a renewal task allows equipment to slip back into service un-reverified.
Auditors don't want a folder of 200 PDFs and your assurance that "the cert for compressor #3 is in there somewhere". They want evidence attached to compressor #3 directly. Per-item evidence attachments separate the audit-ready platforms from the document libraries.
UK diving splits into inshore/inland (HSE ACoP L104) and offshore oil & gas (L103). Some contractors operate both. A platform that only handles one forces the other half of your fleet into spreadsheets.
When an HSE inspector arrives — planned or unplanned — you have minutes to produce coherent evidence, not hours. A one-click ZIP export of every dive log, cert, RAMS, and attachment with a branded cover sheet is what separates a confident response from a panic-mode hunt through SharePoint.
PICMS Diving Pack was built specifically for UK commercial diving contractors — not retro-fitted from a generic compliance platform. Each of the eight checklist items above is shipped, live, and tested in production.
37 cert types, all 7 cadence periods + 30-day grace. Threshold-driven expiry events feeding the weekly digest.
Per-dive records with supervisor, team roles, max depth, bottom time, deco table. 2-year retention baked in.
Categories 1-4 enforced on signing. Every cert traceable back to the signer's category.
One-click PDF, weighted score, empty-data defaults to 0 (not 100). Sales-ready, audit-ready.
Mod logged → equipment flagged → cert superseded → PMS task auto-created. No manual chase.
Plant, certs, CPs, PMS, dive logs all support direct evidence attachment with chain-of-custody.
Both inshore and offshore covered. Industry-pack-aware feature gating per project type.
One-click ZIP — dive logs, certs, RAMS, attachments, branded cover. ~30 second generation.
14-day free trial on both tiers. No credit-card surprise — cancel any time during trial.
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PICMS is built by an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor — someone who's stood across the desk from HSE inspectors and IMCA D011 auditors more times than they can count. The diving pack reflects that: it's not "generic compliance software with a diving skin," it's a dedicated product surface designed around the actual evidence your auditor will ask for.
14 days free, full feature access. Less than £10/day on the Professional tier — pays for itself the first time HSE turns up unannounced.