Medical Certificates
This is for all Club members and refers directly to your own respective responsibilities as a diver and member of BSAC that you are required to complete a Diver self-declaration medical fitness form, upon joining, and then annually when renewing.
The Medical Declaration System works as follows:
From 2020 (updated 2021) a newly designed Recreational Diver Medical Declaration Form has to be completed annually on renewal of membership. The Form is a legal document and the signed declaration confirms that the answers are truthful.
Please note the new form requires the diver to consider whether they have had COVID-19.
Please note near the top of Page 1 of the 2021 form it makes it clear that should a diver develop a new health problem that results in a new “Yes” response to the questions on the form, they must contact a UKDMC Medical Referee for advice and not simply wait until the next annual review as the new problem may have implications for diving.
If the response to all questions on Page 1 of the Recreational Diver Medical Declaration Form are answered ‘No’ this page can be signed and is to be held by the SAA Club/BSAC/SSAC Branch until the following year. Pages 2 and 3 do not need to be accessed. The member should retain a copy of the form with their qualification book.
Should the response to any of the questions on Page 1 of the Recreational Diver Medical Declaration Form be a ‘Yes’, then you need to read the detailed BSAC guidance accordingly: it is not reproduced here as it is a long set of paragraphs - the link is here: https://www.ukdmc.org/medical-self-declaration-system-explanation/.
On completion of your Medical Declaration, and as stated in the BSAC document, you must send the Diving Officer a copy; and retain your own copy with your BSAC Qualification Record Logbook.