International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA Code) 2010 Ed (KD982E) (downloadable product)

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International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA Code) 2010 Ed (KD982E) (downloadable product)

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This publication contains the three most important IMO instruments dealing with life-saving appliances, namely the International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code, the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances and the Code of Practice for the Evaluation, Testing and Acceptance of Prototype Novel Life-Saving Appliances.

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The International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code was adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee in June 1996 by resolution MSC.48(66). It provides international requirements for the life-saving appliances that are required by chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, including personal life-saving appliances (for example, lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids), visual aids (parachute flares, hand flares and buoyant smoke signals), survival craft (liferafts and lifeboats), rescue boats, launching and embarkation appliances and marine evacuation systems, line-throwing appliances; and general alarm and public address systems.

The Code was made mandatory by resolution MSC.47(66) under SOLAS regulation III/3.10, whereby regulation III/34 determines that all life-saving appliances and arrangements shall comply with its requirements. The Code entered into force on 1 July 1998 and since then has been amended in accordance with SOLAS Article VIII as follows:

.1 by the May 2006 amendments, which were adopted by resolution MSC.207(81) and will enter into force on 1 July 2010;

.2 by the December 2006 amendments, which were adopted by resolution MSC.218(82) and entered into force on 1 July 2008; and

.3 by the 2008 amendments, which were adopted by resolution MSC.272(85) and will enter into force on 1 July 2010.

The consolidated text of the LSA Code in the present publication incorporates the above three sets of amendments, including the two sets entering into force on 1 July 2010, since they were deemed to have been accepted, in accordance with the SOLAS amendment procedures, on 1 January 2010 and will therefore automatically enter into force on 1 July 2010.

Recommendations on the testing of life-saving appliances were first adopted by the IMO Assembly in 1991, by resolution A.689(17). In 1998 the MSC, recognizing the need to introduce more precise requirements for the testing of life-saving appliances and recalling that it had amended the recommendations on several occasions since their adoption, adopted the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-saving Appliances (resolution MSC.81(70)), effectively replacing resolution A.689(17). Since then, the Revised Recommendation has again been amended several times, in the main corresponding to the associated amendments to the LSA Code described above, and the present publication contains the consolidated text including the amendments adopted by MSC 80 (resolution MSC.200(80)), MSC 82 (resolution MSC.226(82)) and MSC 85 (resolution MSC.274(85)).

The Code of practice for the evaluation, testing and acceptance of prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements, adopted by the Assembly in 1983 by resolution A.520(13), is intended to cater for prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements which may be developed and do not fully meet the requirements of chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention but provide the same or higher safety standards.

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London, 2010 Life-Saving Appliances including LSA Code 2010 Edition Published in 2010 by the INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR www.imo.org Second edition 2010 Printed in the United Kingdom by CPI Books Limited, Reading RG1 8EX ISBN: 978-92-801-1507-9 IMO PUBLICATION Sales number: ID982E Copyright © International Maritime Organization 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior permission in writing from the International Maritime Organization. This publication has been prepared from of?cial documents of IMO, and every effort has been made to eliminate errors and reproduce the original text(s) faithfully. Readers should be aware that, in case of inconsistency, the of?cial IMO text will prevail. iii Contents Foreword ........................................ 1 Resolution MSC.48(66) .................................. 5 Preamble .......................................... 7 Chapter I General .................................... 7 1.1 De?nitions ................................... 7 1.2 General requirements for life-saving appliances ....... 8 Chapter II Personal life-saving appliances ................... 9 2.1 Lifebuoys .................................... 9 2.2 Lifejackets .................................... 11 2.3 Immersion suits ............................... 15 2.4 Anti-exposure suits ............................. 17 2.5 Thermal protective aids ......................... 19 Chapter III Visual signals ................................ 19 3.1 Rocket parachute ?ares .......................... 19 3.2 Hand ?ares ................................... 20 3.3 Buoyant smoke signals .......................... 20 4.1 General requirements for liferafts .................. 21 Chapter IV Survival craft ................................ 21 4.2 In?atable liferafts .............................. 28 4.3 Rigid liferafts ................................. 33 4.4 General requirements for lifeboats ................. 35 4.5 Partially enclosed lifeboats ....................... 47 4.6 Totally enclosed lifeboats ........................ 48 4.7 Free-fall lifeboats .............................. 50 4.8 Lifeboats with a self-contained air support system ...... 53 4.9 Fire-protected lifeboats .......................... 53 Chapter V Rescue boats ................................ 54 5.1 Rescue boats ................................. 54 Life-Saving Appliances iv Chapter VI Launching and embarkation appliances ............ 60 6.1 Launching and embarkation appliances ............. 60 6.2 Marine evacuation systems ....................... 66 Chapter VII Other life-saving appliances ..................... 69 7.1 Line-throwing appliances ........................ 69 7.2 General alarm and public address system ............ 70 Testing and Evaluation of Life-Saving Appliances I Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, as amended ........................................ 75 Resolution MSC.81(70) ............................... 77 Introduction ....................................... 79 Part 1 Prototype tests for life-saving appliances ............. 80 1 Lifebuoys .................................... 80 1.1 Lifebuoys speci?cation .......................... 80 1.2 Temperature cycling test ......................... 80 1.3 Drop test .................................... 81 1.4 Test for oil resistance ........................... 81 1.5 Fire test ..................................... 81 1.6 Flotation test .................................. 81 1.7 Strength test .................................. 81 1.8 Test for operation with a light and smoke signal ....... 82 1.9 Lifebuoy self-activating smoke signal tests ............ 82 2 Lifejackets ................................... 83 2.1 Temperature cycling test ......................... 83 2.2 Buoyancy test ................................. 83 2.3 Fire test ..................................... 83 2.4 Tests of components other than buoyancy materials .... 83 2.5 Strength tests ................................. 83 2.6 Tests for lifejacket buoyancy material ............... 86 2.7 Donning test .................................. 87 2.8 Water performance tests ......................... 89 2.9 Infant and children’s lifejacket tests ................. 93 2.10 Tests for in?atable lifejackets ...................... 95 v Contents 3 Immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids ......................... 101 3.1 Tests common to non-insulated and insulated immersion suits and anti-exposure suits ...................... 101 3.2 Thermal protective tests ......................... 105 3.3 Thermal protective aids for survival craft ............. 107 4 Pyrotechnics – rocket parachute ?ares, hand ?ares and buoyant smoke signals .......................... 108 4.1 General ..................................... 108 4.2 Temperature tests .............................. 108 4.3 Water and corrosion resistance test ................. 109 4.4 Handling safety test ............................ 109 4.5 Safety inspection .............................. 109 4.6 Rocket parachute ?ares test ...................... 110 4.7 Hand ?ares test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 4.8 Buoyant smoke signals test ....................... 111 5 Liferafts – rigid and in?atable .................... 112 5.1 Drop test .................................... 112 5.2 Jump test .................................... 113 5.3 Weight test ................................... 113 5.4 Towing test ................................... 114 5.5 Mooring out tests .............................. 114 5.6 Liferaft painter system test ........................ 114 5.7 Loading and seating test ......................... 114 5.8 Boarding and closing arrangement test .............. 115 5.9 Stability test .................................. 115 5.10 Manoeuvrability test ............................ 116 5.11 Swamp test ................................... 116 5.12 Canopy closure test ............................ 116 5.13 Buoyancy of ?oat-free liferafts .................... 116 5.14 Detailed inspection ............................ 117 5.15 Weak link test ................................. 117 5.16 Davit-launched liferafts – strength test of lifting components .................................. 117 5.17 Additional tests applicable to in?atable liferafts only .... 118 5.18 Additional tests applicable to automatically self-righting liferafts only .................................. 132 Life-Saving Appliances vi 5.19 Submergence test for automatically self-righting and canopied reversible liferafts ...................... 133 5.20 Wind velocity tests ............................. 133 5.21 Test for self-draining of ?oors of canopied reversible liferafts and automatically self-righting liferafts ........ 134 5.22 Liferaft light tests ............................... 134 6 Lifeboats .................................... 134 6.1 De?nitions and general conditions ................. 134 6.2 Lifeboat material tests ........................... 134 6.3 Lifeboat overload test ........................... 135 6.4 Davit-launched lifeboat impact and drop test ......... 137 6.5 Free-fall lifeboat free-fall test ...................... 139 6.6 Lifeboat seating strength test ...................... 140 6.7 Lifeboat seating space test ........................ 140 6.8 Lifeboat freeboard and stability tests ................ 141 6.9 Release mechanism test ......................... 142 6.10 Lifeboat operational test ......................... 143 6.11 Lifeboat towing and painter release test ............. 144 6.12 Lifeboat light tests .............................. 145 6.13 Canopy erection test ............................ 145 6.14 Additional tests for totally enclosed lifeboats .......... 145 6.15 Air supply test for lifeboats with a self-contained air support system ............................. 147 6.16 Additional tests for ?re-protected lifeboats ........... 148 6.17 Measuring and evaluating acceleration forces ......... 149 7 Rescue boats and fast rescue boats ................ 153 7.1 Rigid rescue boats ............................. 153 7.2 In?ated rescue boats ............................ 155 7.3 Rigid/in?ated rescue boats ....................... 159 7.4 Rigid fast rescue boats .......................... 159 7.5 In?ated fast rescue boats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 7.6 Rigid/in?ated fast rescue boats .................... 160 7.7 Outboard motors for rescue boats ................. 160 8 Launching and embarkation appliances ............. 162 8.1 Testing of davits and launching appliances ........... 162 8.2 Davit-launched liferaft automatic release hook test ..... 164 vii Contents 9 Line-throwing appliances ........................ 167 9.1 Test for pyrotechnics ............................ 167 9.2 Function test .................................. 168 9.3 Line tensile test ................................ 168 9.4 Visual examination ............................. 168 9.5 Temperature test ............................... 168 10 Position-indicating lights for life-saving appliances .... 168 10.1 Survival craft and rescue boats light tests ............ 168 10.2 Lifebuoy self-igniting light tests .................... 169 10.3 Lifejacket light tests ............................. 170 10.4 Common tests for all position-indicating lights ........ 171 11 Hydrostatic release units ........................ 177 11.1 Visual and dimensional examination ................ 177 11.2 Technical tests ................................ 177 11.3 Performance test ............................... 179 12 Marine evacuation systems ...................... 180 12.1 Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 12.2 Marine evacuation system container ................ 180 12.3 Marine evacuation passage ....................... 180 12.4 Marine evacuation platform, if ?tted ................ 182 12.5 Associated in?atable liferafts ...................... 183 12.6 Performance .................................. 183 13 Searchlights for lifeboats and rescue boats .......... 185 13.1 Visual examination ............................. 185 13.2 Durability and resistance to environmental conditions .. 185 13.3 Operational controls ............................ 186 13.4 Light tests .................................... 187 Part 2 Production and installation tests ................... 188 1 General ..................................... 188 2 Individual buoyancy equipment .................. 188 2.1 Lifejackets .................................... 188 2.2 Immersion and anti-exposure suits ................. 189 3 Portable buoyancy equipment ................... 189 3.1 Lifebuoys .................................... 189 Life-Saving Appliances viii 4 Pyrotechnics ................................. 189 5 Survival craft ................................. 189 5.1 Liferaft operational in?ation test ................... 189 5.2 Davit-launched liferaft and in?ated rescue boat test .... 191 5.3 Lifeboat and rescue boat test ..................... 191 5.4 Launch test ................................... 192 6 Launching and stowage arrangements .............. 192 6.1 Launching appliances using falls and winches ......... 192 6.2 Installation tests of liferaft launching appliances ....... 194 7 Marine evacuation systems ...................... 196 7.1 Installation tests ............................... 196 Annex 1 – Adult reference test device (RTD) design and construction ......................... 197 1 General ..................................... 197 2 Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 3 Construction .................................. 198 Annex 2 – Child reference test device (RTD) design and construction ......................... 219 1 General ..................................... 219 2 Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 3 Construction .................................. 220 Annex 3 – Infant reference test device (RTD) design and construction ......................... 237 1 General ..................................... 237 2 Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 3 Construction .................................. 238 II Code of practice for the evaluation, testing and acceptance of prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements ................................... 255 Resolution A.520(13) ................................. 257 Preamble .......................................... 259 1 General provisions ............................. 260 2 General criteria ................................ 261 3 Appliance criteria and testing of prototypes .......... 266

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