including LSA code International Maritime Organization creator International Maritime Organization text enk London International Maritime Organization c2010 2010 2nd ed., 2010 ed. monographic eng

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viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Foreword -- Resolution MSC.48(66) -- Preamble -- General -- Personal life-saving appliances -- Visual signals -- Survival craft -- Rescue boats -- Launching and embarkation appliances -- Other life-saving appliances -- Testing and evaluation of life-saving appliances -- I. Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, as amended -- Resolution MSC.81(70) -- Introduction -- Part 1: Prototype tests for life-saving appliances -- Lifebuoys -- Lifejackets -- Immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids -- Pyrotechnics - rocket parachute flares, hand flares and buoyant smoke signals -- Liferafts - rigid and inflatable -- Lifeboats -- Rescue boats and fast rescure boats -- Launching and embarkation appliances -- Line-throwing appliances -- Position-indicating lights for life-saving appliances -- Hydrostatic release units -- Marine evacuation systems -- Searchlights for lifeboats and rescueboats -- Part 2: Production and installation tests -- General -- Individual buoyancy equipment -- Portable buoyancy equipment -- Pyrotechnics -- Survival craft -- Launching and stowage arrangements -- Marine evacuation systems -- Annex 1: Adult reference test device (RTD) design and construction -- Annex 2: Child reference test device (RTD) design and construction -- Annex 3 : Infant reference test device (RTD) design and construction -- II. Code of practice for the evaluation, testing and acceptance of prototype novel life-saving appliances and arrangements -- Resolution A.520(13) -- Preamble. "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. Lifesaving Equipment and supplies Testing 623.865 I339 9789280115079 9280115073 110302