1、BS EN15649-4:2010ICS 97.220.40NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBRITISH STANDARDFloating leisurearticles for use on andin the waterPart 4: Additional specific safetyrequirements and test methods forClass B devices+A1:2012National forewordThis British Standard is t
2、he UK implementation of EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012. It supersedes BS EN 15649-4:2010 which is withdrawn.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee SW/136, Sports, playground and other recreational equipment.A list of organizations represented on this committee can be o
3、btained on request to its secretary.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 cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012This British Stand
4、ardwas published under theauthority of the StandardsPolicy and StrategyCommittee on 31 January2010 The British Standards Institution 2012. Published by BSI Standards Limited 2012Amendments/corrigenda issued since publicationDate Comments 29 February 2012 Implementation of CEN amendment A1:2012ISBN 9
5、78 0 580 75585 9EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 15649-4:2010+A1 January 2012 ICS 97.220.40 Supersedes EN 15649-4:2010English Version Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water - Part 4: Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for Class B devices Artic
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7、Klasse B-Gerte This European Standard was approved by CEN on 4 December 2009 and includes Amendment 1 approved by CEN on 29 November 2011.CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a nationa
8、l standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A versio
9、n in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Cze
10、ch Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION C
11、OMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2012 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012: EEN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 2 Contents Pa
12、ge Foreword 3Introduction .51 Scope 82 Normative references 83 Terms and definitions .84 Safety requirements and test methods 104.1 General . 104.2 Sizing . 104.3 Strength of entire device B1 134.4 In-water performance of class B1 devices . 144.5 In-water performance of class B2 devices . 185 Exclus
13、ions . 22Annex A (informative) Optional manikin testing for swim seats as one possible embodiment of class B1 devices, requirements 23Annex B (informative) Examples of typical products forming Class B 32Bibliography . 34BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 3 Foreword This document (
14、EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 136 “Sports, playground and other recreational facilities and equipment”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical t
15、ext or by endorsement, at the latest by July 2012, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by July 2012. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible
16、for identifying any or all such patent rights. This document includes Amendment 1, approved by CEN on 2011-11-29. This document supersedes EN 15649-4:2010. The start and finish of text introduced or altered by amendment is indicated in the text by tags !“. This document has been prepared under manda
17、te given to CEN by the European Commission. This European Standard is one of a series consisting of seven standards dealing with floating leisure articles for use on and in the water. Compliance of a product to this standard requires that the relevant specific part and additionally the EN 15649-1 an
18、d EN 15649-2 are met. If a product includes multiple use related to several classes it should meet the requirements of all these classes. BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 4 According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following c
19、ountries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, S
20、lovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 5 Introduction Class B devices are marketed and used for the purpose of activities in the water. In distinction to other floating devices they are characterised by a typically partly
21、 immersed position of the user inside the device. In case of Class B1 products, i.e. the swim seat for children above three years of age (36 months), users po-sition might be such that in case of very young users (non swimmers four years and above) the body is kept afloat und laterally supported by
22、a surrounding inflatable structure which provides a relatively tight fit between user and buoyant structure. This in turn incorporates the potential risk of body entrapment in case of a capsiz-ing. Class B1-type products for children below three years of age (36 months) are dealt with in EN 13138-3.
23、 The development of new products in this area is progressing. Beyond the classical swim seat rafts for more dynamic action on and in the water different body postures and extended user groups have been developed. Class B2 products do not provide this kind of support to the user. Even if they have th
24、e circumferential buoy-ant structure in common with the Class B1 products and thus the entrapment risk if this fit becomes too tight flotation of the user depends on his ability to hold himself by hands or body inside the very loosely sur-rounding buoyant structure. Both classes of products include
25、also adult use. Activities may reach from passive floating to actions like wave surfing, tubing, balancing, swinging, etc. The devices are linked with the identified risks given in Table 1. Standardisation is aiming for more safety with regard to all foreseeable uses. Dealing with a partly intention
26、ally immersed human body leads to the question of loads to be applied for ap-propriate testing. For the purpose of this standard load resulting from the body weight are set with 75 % of the body weight of the heaviest foreseeable or specified user even when in certain circumstances this immersed bod
27、y weight may be reduced to roughly 10 %. In cases where the devices can be used for sitting on top (e.g. big rings) the maximum body weight out of the stipulated user group should be applied. It should be noted that this standard is not related to the one and only technically clearly determined prod
28、uct but to a whole diverse product group including two major design principles B1 and B2 as laid down in the classification, see Clause 4, for Class B floating leisure articles. Children testing See Annex A and !EN 15649-1:2009+A1:2012“, Clause 4, as alternative. Use of Class B products in-cludes ch
29、ildren from four years of age and above. Some essential requirement ensuring safety in use and in dangerous situations which may occur e. g. a capsize cannot be simulated and verified via the applica-tion of forces or other instrumental procedures but only by practical testing involving human test s
30、ubjects or test dummies which sufficiently represent the envisaged user groups. Children in testing increase the near-ness to real life situation but may lead to subjective results. An increased number of test cycles are an appro-priate means to get an average result which makes the subjective test
31、more objective. The application of test dummies reduces the nearness to real life situation but increases reproducibility of testing. Costs and ex-penses are high in the beginning (production costs) but may pay off in long term in comparison to the ex-penses of repeated provision and operation of hu
32、man test subjects. The worst alternative is to eliminate cer-tain requirements if they cannot be verified for the reason of lacking either test dummies or human test sub-jects. It goes without saying that any involvement of human test subjects and thus in particular child testing is ac-companied wit
33、h all necessary precautions, surveillance and safety measures. This standard refers amongst others to children as test subjects. The anthropometric requirements related to these test subjects are based on children five years and nine years of age with a body height of 126 cm and 149 cm and a body we
34、ight of 25 kg/38 kg. Children of 14 years of age and above can be represented by the smallest adult female person representing the fifth percentile of the anthropometric range. BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 6 In order to provide in all cases an alternative to child testing th
35、e anthropometric data of relevant manikins are specified for optional application in Annex A. Table 1 Introductory risk analysis No. Typical prod-ucts Place of use Function; range of usage; target/age group Type of movement/propulsionPosition of user in regard to the equipment, ele-vation above wate
36、r Predict-able mis-use Partial risk related to water environ-ment Fi-nal risk Protection aims standard/ regulation B (B1, B2) floating struc-tures with circum-ferential buoy-ancy cham-bers around users body, body opening with or without interior body holding system, various body postures depending o
37、n age group and capability to swim: pool, close to shore, lake, pond children; adoles-cents; large vari-ety with regard to age and use (max. 16 years to 18 years); no infants mainly drift-ing; propul-sion only by swimming strokes; third party acting, moving by hand pad-dling, action in waves for ado
38、lescents in-water position; main parts of body are below the water sur-face; no elevation above water level, sitting kneeling, stand-ing, laying dangerous distance from bank/ shore; use in currents and/or dangerous offshore winds; use by non-swimmers (B2); cap-sizing (B1); wrong size allocation (use
39、r wedged in device); lack of su-pervision Capsizing, entrapment, entangle-ment; cap-sizing in combination with entrap-ment can lead to fatal accidents; drifting away through cur-rant or wind DROWNINGavoidance of entrapment/ entangle-ment; float-ing stability; residual buoyancy; warning notes; easy e
40、scape in the case of capsizing; adult super-vision; suit-able sizing system BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 7 ! “ NOTE 1 Rings and ring shaped tubes dealt with in this standard are in no case swim rings as means to learn to swim (see EN 13138-2) but water leisure articles for h
41、anging in or sitting on. NOTE 2 The minimum length or width is 1,2 m and the corresponding dimension is 1,2 m. BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 8 1 Scope This European Standard specifies safety requirements and test methods related to materials, safety, perform-ance and consumer
42、 information for classified floating leisure articles for use on and in the water according to EN 15649-1. This document is applicable with EN 15649-1 and EN 15649-2. This European Standard is applicable for Class B floating leisure articles for use on and in the water according to EN 15649-1 regard
43、less whether the buoyancy is achieved by inflation or inherent buoyant material. Class B devices provide a buoyant structure with one or more body openings into which the user is positioned partly immersed. NOTE 1 Typical products forming Class B (see Annex B): floating rafts with interior body hold
44、ing system (“swim seats“) mostly in circular or square shape, fantasy shape for playing purposes; floating fantasy shaped !deleted text“ structures with one or more openings to host a childs body, with or with-out body holding system; floating with slits or openings to put legs through any shape !de
45、leted text“; floating rings with interior seat segments inside the circular body opening. NOTE 2 Typical places for application: pools; protected areas of lakes, ponds; protected area sea shore (no offshore winds, no currents). 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensa
46、ble for the application of this document. For dated refer-ences, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. EN 13138-3:2007, Buoyant aids for swimming instruction Part 3: Safety requirements and test metho
47、ds for swim seats to be worn !EN 15649-1:2009+A1:2012“, Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water Part 1: Classification, materials, general requirements and test methods EN 15649-2, Floating leisure articles for use on or in the water Part 2: Consumer information 3 Terms and definitions
48、 For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in !EN 15649-1:2009+A1:2012“ and the following apply. BS EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012EN 15649-4:2010+A1:2012 (E) 9 3.1 residual buoyancy provision of remaining buoyancy in case of a defect of any buoyancy chamber 3.2 buoyant swimming dev
49、ice garment or device which, when correctly worn and used in water, will provide the user with a specific amount of buoyancy which will increase the likelihood of survival EN ISO 12402-1:2005, 3.1 3.31)device providing static floating stability product so designed that the user does not need to care about floating stability by his own skills NOTE One or several users may be safely on or in the device even if the weight is not evenly distributed. 3.41) device to be balanced by the user
