BS ISO BRITISH STANDARD 24408:2005 Ships and marine technology - Position-indicating lights for life-saving appliances Testing, inspection and marking of production units ICS 47.020.01 BSi NOCOPYINGWITHOUTBSIPERMISSIONEXCEPTASPERMITTEDBYCOPYRIGHTL British Standards BS ISO 24408:2005 National foreword This British Standard reproduces verbatim IS0 24408:2005 and implements it as the UK national standard. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical Committee SME/32, Ships and marine technology, to Subcommittee SME/32/1, Lifesaving and fire protection, which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep UK interests informed; monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK. A list of organizations represented on this subcommittee can be obtained on request to its secretary. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international publications referred to in this document may be found in the BSI Catalogue under the section entitled "International Standards Correspondence Index", or by using the “Search" facility of the BSI Electronic Catalogue or of British Standards Online. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. Compliance with a British Standard does not ofitself confer immunity from legal obligations. Summary of pages This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the ISO title page, pages i to v, a blank page, pages 1 to 11 and a back cover. The BSI copyright notice displayed in this document indicates when the document was last issued. This British Standard was Amendments issued since publication published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee Amd. No. Date Comments on30January2006 C BSI 30 January 2006 ISBN 0 580 47407 0 BS ISO 24408:2005 INTERNATIONAL ISO STANDARD 24408 First edition 2005-11-15 Ships and marine technology Position- indicating lights for life-saving appliances Testing, inspection and marking of production units Navires et technologie maritime Feux de localisation pour engins de sauvetage- Essais, inspection et marquage des unités produites Reference number ISO 24408:2005(E) ISO ii BS ISO 24408:2005 Contents Page Scope. 2 Normative references. 3 Terms and definitions 4 General. 4.1 Manufacturing standards ... 4.2 Visual appearance and craftsmanship 4.3 Marking 4.4 Documentation 5 Performance 5.1 General. 5.2 Lifejacket lights. 5.3 Survival craft lights. 5.4 Lifebuoy self-igniting lights ... 6 Test procedures. 6.1 Lifejacket lights. 6.2 Survival craft lights. 6.3 Lifebuoy self-igniting lights. Annex A (informative) Production testing and inspection procedures...... Bibliography. ili BS IS0 24408:2005 Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. InternationalStandardsaredraftedinaccordancewiththerulesgivenintheISO/lECDirectives,Part2 adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent ISO 24408 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 8, Ships and marine technology, Subcommittee SC 1, Lifesaving andfire protection iv BS ISO 24408:2005 Introduction This International Standard is intended for use in conjunction with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Some of the provisions of this International Standard exceed the IMO requirements, in that the IMO Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances [Resolution A.689(17), as ame