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Flotation Devices

BSI Child Care and Safety standards cover a range of products to be used by children and by adults caring for children. Published by the British Standards Institution, many of these standards are for products such as carriers, cradles, cots, and other devices designed for holding a child. Other standards address products like cutlery or toys, where the child itself is handling the product. Looking outside of the home, playground equipment and surfacing is a key focus in child safety standards efforts, along with foodstuffs, and personal flotation devices designed for use with children.

BS EN ISO 12402-1:2005

Personal flotation devices. Lifejackets for seagoing ships. Safety requirements (British Standard)

ISO 12402-1:2005 specifies the safety requirements for lifejackets intended for use on seagoing ships with regard to the technical provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.

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BS EN ISO 12402-2:2020

Personal flotation devices Lifejackets, performance level 275. Safety requirements (British Standard)

This document specifies the safety requirements for lifejackets, performance level 275. It is applicable to lifejackets for adults, children or infants, for offshore use under severe conditions, or when protective clothing is being used or additional loads are being carried.

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BS EN ISO 12402-3:2020

Personal flotation devices Lifejackets, performance level 150. Safety requirements (British Standard)

This document specifies the safety requirements for lifejackets, performance level 150. It is applicable to lifejackets used by adults, children and infants, for general, offshore or rough water use, or when the users are fully clothed.

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BS EN ISO 12402-4:2020

Personal flotation devices Lifejackets, performance level 100. Safety requirements (British Standard)

This document specifies the safety requirements for lifejackets, performance level 100. It is applicable to lifejackets used by adults, children and infants, for use in sheltered or calm water, or when the users are fully clothed.

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BS EN ISO 12402-5:2020

Personal flotation devices Buoyancy aids (level 50). Safety requirements (British Standard)

This document specifies the safety requirements for buoyancy aids, performance level 50. It is applicable to buoyancy aids for adults and children with a body mass greater than 25 kg only, used in sheltered waters. Buoyancy aids require active participation by the user where help and rescue are close at hand. One-piece and two-piece inherently buoyant floatation suit PFDs are deemed to qualify as special application devices according to ISO 12402-6:2020.

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BS EN ISO 25649-4:2017

Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water. Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for Class B devices (British Standard)

ISO 25649-4:2017 specifies safety requirements and test methods related to materials, safety, performance and consumer information for classified floating leisure articles for use on and in the water according to ISO 25649 1. ISO 25649-4:2017 is to be applied with ISO 25649 1 and ISO 25649 2. ISO 25649-4:2017 is applicable for Class B floating leisure articles for use on and in the water according to ISO 25649 1 regardless whether the buoyancy is achieved by inflation or inherent buoyant material. Class B devices provide a buoyant structure with one or more body openings into which the user is positioned partly immersed. NOTE 1 Typical products forming Class B (see Annex B): - floating rafts with interior body holding system ( swim seats ) mostly in circular or square shape, fantasy shape for playing purposes; - floating fantasy shaped structures with one or more openings to host a child's body, with or without body holding system; - floating with slits or openings to put legs through any shape; - floating rings with interior seat segments inside the circular body opening. NOTE 2 Typical places for application: - pools; - protected areas of lakes, ponds; - protected area sea shore (no offshore winds, no currents).

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BS EN 13138-3:2021

Buoyant aids for swimming instruction Safety requirements and test methods for swim seats into which a user is positioned (British Standard)

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