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    The document is a resolution from the Maritime Safety Committee adopting a revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances. It recognizes the need for more precise testing requirements and adopts an annex setting out revised prototype tests for various life-saving equipment, including lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, pyrotechnics, liferafts, lifeboats, rescue boats, launching appliances, line-throwing appliances, lights, hydrostatic release units, marine evacuation systems and searchlights. The tests are intended to ensure life-saving appliances perform as expected in actual emergencies.

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    The document is a resolution from the Maritime Safety Committee adopting a revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances. It recognizes the need for more precise testing requirements and adopts an annex setting out revised prototype tests for various life-saving equipment, including lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, pyrotechnics, liferafts, lifeboats, rescue boats, launching appliances, line-throwing appliances, lights, hydrostatic release units, marine evacuation systems and searchlights. The tests are intended to ensure life-saving appliances perform as expected in actual emergencies.

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    The document is a resolution from the Maritime Safety Committee adopting a revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances. It recognizes the need for more precise testing requirements and adopts an annex setting out revised prototype tests for various life-saving equipment, including lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, pyrotechnics, liferafts, lifeboats, rescue boats, launching appliances, line-throwing appliances, lights, hydrostatic release units, marine evacuation systems and searchlights. The tests are intended to ensure life-saving appliances perform as expected in actual emergencies.

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    MSC.81 (70) Partie1

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    The document is a resolution from the Maritime Safety Committee adopting a revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances. It recognizes the need for more precise testing requirements and adopts an annex setting out revised prototype tests for various life-saving equipment, including lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, pyrotechnics, liferafts, lifeboats, rescue boats, launching appliances, line-throwing appliances, lights, hydrostatic release units, marine evacuation systems and searchlights. The tests are intended to ensure life-saving appliances perform as expected in actual emergencies.

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    RESOLUTION MSC.

    81(70)
    (adopted on 11 December 1998)
    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF
    LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES
    RESOLUTION MSC.81(70)
    (adopted on 11 December 1998)
    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF
    LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES MSC 70/23/Add.1

    ANNEX 6

    RESOLUTION MSC.81(70)
    (adopted on 11 December 1998)

    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

    THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

    RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization


    concerning the functions of the Committee,

    RECALLING ALSO that the Assembly, when adopting resolution A.689(17) on Testing of life-
    saving appliances, authorized the Committee to keep the Recommendation on testing of life-saving
    appliances under review and to adopt, when appropriate, amendments thereto,

    RECALLING FURTHER that, since the adoption of resolution A.689(17), the Committee has
    amended the Recommendation annexed thereto in five occasions, i.e. by resolution MSC.54(66), by
    circulars MSC/Circ.596, MSC/Circ.615 and MSC/Circ.809 and through the present resolution,

    NOTING that the 1995 SOLAS Conference, in adopting amendments to the 1974 SOLAS
    Convention concerning the safety of ro-ro passenger ships, also adopted resolution 7 on Development of
    requirements, guidelines and performance standards, whereby the Committee was requested to develop
    relevant requirements, guidelines and performance standards to assist in the implementation of the
    amendments adopted by the Conference,

    NOTING ALSO that the requirements of the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code
    came into force on 1 July 1998 under the provisions of new chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention,

    RECOGNIZING the need to introduce more precise requirements in the testing of life-saving
    appliances,

    HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and
    Equipment at its forty-first session,

    1. ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances, set out in the Annex
    to the present resolution;

    2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that life-saving appliances are subjected to:

    .1 the tests recommended in the Annex to the present resolution; or

    .2 such tests as the Administration is satisfied are substantially equivalent to those


    recommended in the Annex to the present resolution.

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    RESOLUTION MSC.81(70)
    (adopted on 11 December 1998)
    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF
    MSC 70/23/Add.1 LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES
    ANNEX 6
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    ANNEX

    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

    CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    PART 1 - PROTOTYPE TESTS FOR LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

    1 LIFEBUOYS
    1.1 Lifebuoys specification
    1.2 Temperature cycling test
    1.3 Drop test
    1.4 Test for oil resistance
    1.5 Fire test
    1.6 Flotation test
    1.7 Strength test
    1.8 Test for operation with a light and smoke signal
    1.9 Lifebuoy self-activating smoke signal tests

    2 LIFEJACKETS
    2.1 Temperature cycling test
    2.2 Buoyancy test
    2.3 Fire test
    2.4 Test for oil resistance
    2.5 Tests of materials for cover, tapes and seams
    2.6 Strength tests
    2.7 Additional tests for lifejacket buoyancy material other than cork or kapok
    2.8 Donning test
    2.9 Water performance tests
    2.10 Children's lifejacket tests
    2.11 Tests for inflatable lifejackets

    3 IMMERSION SUITS, ANTI-EXPOSURE SUITS AND THERMAL PROTECTIVE AIDS


    3.1 Tests common to non-insulated and insulated immersion suits
    3.2 Thermal protective tests
    3.3 Thermal protective aids for survival craft

    4 PYROTECHNICS - ROCKET PARACHUTE FLARES, HAND FLARES AND BUOYANT


    SMOKE SIGNALS
    4.1 General
    4.2 Temperature tests
    4.3 Water and corrosion resistance test
    4.4 Handling safety test
    4.5 Safety inspection
    4.6 Rocket parachute flares test
    4.7 Hand flares test
    4.8 Buoyant smoke signals test

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    RESOLUTION MSC.81(70)
    (adopted on 11 December 1998)
    REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF
    LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES MSC 70/23/Add.1
    ANNEX 6
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    5 LIFERAFTS - RIGID AND INFLATABLE


    5.1 Drop test
    5.2 Jump test
    5.3 Weight test
    5.4 Towing test
    5.5 Mooring out tests
    5.6 Liferaft painter system test
    5.7 Loading and seating test
    5.8 Boarding and closing arrangement test
    5.9 Stability test
    5.10 Manoeuvrability test
    5.11 Swamp test
    5.12 Canopy closure test
    5.13 Buoyancy of float-free liferafts
    5.14 Detailed inspection
    5.15 Weak link test
    5.16 Davit-launched liferafts: strength test of lifting components
    5.17 Additional tests applicable to inflatable liferafts only
    5.18 Additional tests applicable to automatically self-righting liferafts only
    5.19 Submergence test for automatically self-righting and canopied reversible liferafts
    5.20 Wind velocity test
    5.21 Test for self-draining of floors of canopied reversible liferafts and automatically self-righting
    liferafts
    5.22 Liferaft light tests

    6 LIFEBOATS
    6.1 Definitions and general conditions
    6.2 Lifeboat material tests
    6.3 Lifeboat overload test
    6.4 Davit-launched lifeboat impact and drop test
    6.5 Free-fall lifeboat free-fall test
    6.6 Lifeboat seating strength test
    6.7 Lifeboat seating space test
    6.8 Lifeboat freeboard and stability tests
    6.9 Release mechanism test
    6.10 Lifeboat operational test
    6.11 Lifeboat towing and painter release test
    6.12 Lifeboat light tests
    6.13 Canopy erection test
    6.14 Additional tests for totally enclosed lifeboats
    6.15 Air supply test for lifeboats with a self-contained air support system
    6.16 Additional tests for fire-protected lifeboats
    6.17 Measuring and evaluating acceleration forces

    7 RESCUE BOATS AND FAST RESCUE BOATS


    7.1 Rigid rescue boats
    7.2 Inflated rescue boats
    7.3 Rigid/inflated rescue boats
    7.4 Rigid fast rescue boats

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    7.5 Inflated fast rescue boats


    7.6 Rigid/inflated fast rescue boats
    7.7 Outboard motors for rescue boats

    8 LAUNCHING AND EMBARKATION APPLIANCES


    8.1 Testing of davits and launching appliances
    8.2 Davit-launched liferaft automatic release hook test

    9 LINE-THROWING APPLIANCES
    9.1 Tests for pyrotechnics
    9.2 Function test
    9.3 Line tensile test
    9.4 Visual examination
    9.5 Temperature test

    10 POSITION-INDICATING LIGHTS FOR LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES


    10.1 Survival craft and rescue boats light tests
    10.2 Lifebuoy self-igniting light tests
    10.3 Lifejacket light tests
    10.4 Common tests for all position-indicating lights (additional lights are required to carry out the
    environmental tests)

    11 HYDROSTATIC RELEASE UNITS


    11.1 Visual and dimensional examination
    11.2 Technical tests
    11.3 Performance test

    12 MARINE EVACUATION SYSTEMS


    12.1 Materials
    12.2 Marine evacuation system container
    12.3 Marine evacuation passage
    12.4 Marine evacuation platform, if fitted
    12.5 Associated inflatable liferafts
    12.6 Performance

    13 SEARCHLIGHTS FOR LIFEBOATS AND RESCUE BOATS


    13.1 Visual examination
    13.2 Durability and resistance to environmental conditions
    13.3 Operational controls
    13.4 Light tests

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