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I'm an OSHA consultant and I actually talked to the lady who 
granted the variance and she sais it was only granted to Dixie 
Divers with no piggybacking.

RD

> I talked to OSHA and the Federal Register office today and confirmed that
> Dixie Divers application for variance to allow their instructors to use
> nitrox while teaching was finally approved last week and will be published
> by the Federal Register on December 20, only two years after being
> submitted. The OSHA website is www.osha.gov do a search under "Dixie
> Divers". The Federal Register website is www.nara.gov/fedreg/.
> 
> In a nutshell for those of you who are unaware it is/was a violation of U.S.
> federal OSHA regulations/laws for an instructor who is employed by a company
> (dive shop) to use nitrox while teaching the company's (dive shop's)
> students.
> Seems that OSHA likes to classify that as commercial diving.
> 
> I would like to see a consensus from the attorneys who subscribe to the
> lists on whether or not they believe that this variance will apply to all
> instructors, after you've had a chance to read all 79 pages of the variance
> of course.
> 
> Ironically the Gov.. dragged their feet so long on this that the scuba
> industry is starting to move beyond recreational nitrox and into
> recreational helitrox making this almost a mute point.
> 
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> David Thiesfeld
> www.cwscuba.com
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