Tag: LSA Code

Terntank Danish ship management company has chosen Swedish company C-Survey to perform the inspections of its vessels and ensure that all reports and approvals regarding the safety equipment on board their newest vessels are in order.

A number of important amendments to IMO treaties enter into force on 1 January 2016, including new requirements for verification of compliance, making audits mandatory under the IMO Member State Audit Scheme.

IMO MSC adopted Resolution MSC.368(93) on 22 May 2014 to amend Life -Saving Appliance (LSA) Code.

Japan Club: Focus on Fall Preventer Devices

The Republic of the Marshall Islands issued Technical Circular regarding the on-load release mechanisms for rescue boats (Applicability of the LSA Code 4.4.7.6)

The IMO's Committee on Maritime Safety (MSC) held its 93rd Session (MSC 93) from Wednesday 14 through Friday 23 May 2014 under the Chairmanship of Mr Christian Breinholt (DENMARK) and his Vice Chair, Captain M Segar of SINGAPORE). 104 Member States attended the meeting during which a drafting group (DG) and two working groups (WG) were subsequently formed and chaired as follows:

Implementation of new SOLAS Regulation on release hooks

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has issued a letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) certifying that the Administrator has accepted an equivalent arrangement under the provisions of regulation 5 of Chapter I of SOLAS

New, stricter, safety standards for lifeboat release and retrieval systems Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) aimed at preventing accidents during lifeboat launching entered into force on 1 January 2013.The amendments, adopted in May 2011, add a new paragraph 5 to SOLAS regulation III/1, to require lifeboat on-load release mechanisms not complying with new International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code requirements to be replaced, no later than the first scheduled dry-docking of the ship after 1 July 2014 but, in any case, not later than 1 July 2019.The SOLAS amendment is intended to establish new, stricter, safety standards for lifeboat release and retrieval systems, and will require the assessment and possible replacement of a large number of lifeboat release hooks.Information submitted by flag States on their assessments of existing lifeboat hooks is available on the Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS) under Evaluation of Hooks.Source: IMO

What are the consequences? Reference is made to the revised LSA Code, applicable from 1 January 2012, where the person weight for the design and testing of liferafts has been increased from 75 to 82.5 kg.Until further notice, the following preliminary IACS position shall be DNV practice:All ships constructed (keel laid) on or after 1 January 2012 should carry liferafts approved on the basis of an average person mass of occupants of 82.5kg. The SWL of any davits installed for launching these liferafts should be approved on the basis of an average person mass of occupants of 82.5kg.All ships constructed before 1 January 2012 may continue to use inflatable liferafts approved on the basis of an average person mass of occupants of 75kg unless such rafts are "replaced". Replaced liferafts do not include rafts which are "exchanged" for servicing, in cases where Owners have made arrangements with service firms to exchange such liferafts. As such, "82.5kg inflatable liferafts" are only required when "75kg inflatable liferafts" are "replaced" due to damage, upgrade of equipment, etc.On passenger ships constructed before 1 January 2012, MSC.1/Circ.1347 permits the determination of the required SWL of a liferaft launching appliance to continue to be based on ...