PSDA Safety Inspector Exam case studies

The PSDA Safety Inspector credential is intended for public safety divers and dive supervisors who are responsible for auditing and improving the safety of a dive program rather than simply executing dives. It is relevant to fire, law enforcement, search and rescue, and municipal or county dive teams, and to the officers who manage them. The exam is a written, multiple-choice assessment that spans nine domains: program administration and standards compliance; regulations, consensus standards, and legal duties of care; team organization and chain of command; personnel qualifications and records; dive planning and risk assessment; equipment inspection and maintenance records; compressor and air-quality systems; emergency action plans and accident reporting; and inspection, audit, and incident investigation technique. Candidates should expect questions that test judgment about documentation, authority, and defensible process, not just recall of limits. The PSDA Safety Inspector Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,009 words.