What is LSA Code, Chapters And Contents

  What is LSA Code?

  > LSA Code provides international requirements for the life-saving appliances required by chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention.

It include the requirement of 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;

       >  general alarm and public address systems.

Below You can see the Chapters and subdivisions in LSA Code

CHAPTER I - GENERAL

1.1 Definitions

1. 2 General requirements for life-saving appliances

CHAPTER II - PERSONAL LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

2.1 Lifebuoys

2.2 Lifejackets

2 3 Immersion suits

2.4 Anti exposure suits

2 5 Thermal protective aids

CHAPTER III - VISUAL SIGNALS

3 1 Rocket parachute flares

3.2 Hand flares

3.3 Buoyant smoke signals

CHAPTER IV - SURVIVAL CRAFT

4 1 General requirements for liferafts

4 2 Inflatable liferafts

4 3 Rigid liferafts

44 General requirements for lifeboats

4 5 Partially enclosed lifeboats

4.6 Totally enclosed lIfeboats

4.7 Free-fall lifeboats

4 8 Lifeboats with a self-contained air support system

4 9 Fire-protected Lifeboats

CHAPTER V - RESCUE BOATS

5.1 Rescue boats

CHAPTER VI - LAUNCHING AND EMBARKATION APPLIANCES

6.1 Launching and embarkation appliances

6.2 Marine evacuation systems

CHAPTER VII - OTHER LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES

7.1 Line-throwing appliances

7.2 General alarm and public address system


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