RESOLUTION MSC.295(87)

(adopted on 21 May 2010)

 

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES (RESOLUTION MSC.81(70))

 

 

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

 

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.689(17) entitled "Testing of life-saving appliances", by which the Assembly, at its seventeenth session, adopted the Recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances,

 

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

 

NOTING resolution MSC.81(70), by which, at its seventieth session, it adopted the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, introducing more precise provisions for the testing of life-saving appliances based on the requirements of the International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code,

 

RECOGNIZING the need to appropriately align the relevant provisions of the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances with the associated amendments to the LSA Code adopted by resolution MSC.293(87),

 

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-seventh session, proposed amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment at its fifty-second session,

 

1.         ADOPTS amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances (resolution MSC.81(70)), as amended, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

 

2.         RECOMMENDS Governments to apply the annexed amendments when testing life-saving appliances.

 

 

ANNEX

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE REVISED RECOMMENDATION ON TESTING OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES (RESOLUTION MSC.81(70)), AS AMENDED

 

PART 1 PROTOTYPE TESTS FOR LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

 

1          In paragraphs 5.2.1, 5.7, 5.16.4, 5.17.1, 5.17.2.3, 5.17.10.4 and 5.17.12, the figure "75 kg" is replaced by the figure "82.5 kg".

 

PART 2 PRODUCTION AND INSTALLATION TESTS

 

2          In paragraph 5.2, the existing subparagraph .4 is replaced by the following:

 

".4 the 10% overload to be 10% of the mass of the liferaft or rescue boat assembly together with its full equipment and complement of persons calculated at 82.5 kg per person;".

 

3          In paragraph 6.2.5, the figure "75 kg" is replaced by the figure "82.5 kg".