Life-saving appliances
Subtitle: including LSA code
By: International Maritime Organization
Edition: 2nd ed., 2010 ed.
Publisher: International Maritime Organization
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789280115079
Subjects: Lifesaving; Testing; Equipment and supplies
Notes: "IMO publication. Sales number: ID982E"--T.p. verso.

"This publicaton contains ...  The International life-saving appliance (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"--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Resolution MSC.48(66); title: Preamble; title: General; title: Personal life-saving appliances; title: Visual signals; title: Survival craft; title: Rescue boats; title: Launching and embarkation appliances; title: Other life-saving appliances; title: Testing and evaluation of life-saving appliances; title: I. Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, as amended; title: Resolution MSC.81(70); title: Introduction; title: Part 1: Prototype tests for life-saving appliances; title: Lifebuoys; title: Lifejackets; title: Immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids; title: Pyrotechnics - rocket parachute flares, hand flares and buoyant smoke signals; title: Liferafts - rigid and inflatable; title: Lifeboats; title: Rescue boats and fast rescure boats; title: Launching and embarkation appliances; title: Line-throwing appliances; title: Position-indicating lights for life-saving appliances; title: Hydrostatic release units; title: Marine evacuation systems; title: Searchlights for lifeboats and rescueboats; title: Part 2: Production and installation tests; title: General; title: Individual buoyancy equipment; title: Portable buoyancy equipment; title: Pyrotechnics; title: Survival craft; title: Launching and stowage arrangements; title: Marine evacuation systems; title: Annex 1: Adult reference test device (RTD) design and construction; title: Annex 2: Child reference test device (RTD) design and construction; title: Annex 3 : Infant reference test device (RTD) design and construction; title: II. Code of practice for the evaluation, testing and acceptance of prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements; title: Resolution A.520(13); title: Preamble.