IMO Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code: 2023 [paper]

IMO Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code

IMO Life-Saving Appliances including LSA Code 2023 Edition- Errata January 2025

Contains the three most important IMO instruments dealing with life-saving appliances, namely the International Life- Saving Appliance (LSA) Code, the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances and the Code of Practice for Evaluation, Testing and Acceptance of Prototype Novel Life-Saving Appliances. It provides international requirements for the life-saving appliances required by chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, including personal life-saving appliances like lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids; visual aids, such as parachute flares, hand flares and buoyant smoke signals; survival craft, such as life rafts and lifeboats; rescue boats; launching and embarkation appliances and marine evacuation systems line throwing appliances; and general alarm and public address systems.