EN ISO 25649-4:2024

Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water - Part 4: Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for Class B devices (ISO 25649-4:2024)

Publication date:   Aug 8, 2024

Scope

This document specifies additional specific safety requirements and test methods for Class B floating leisure articles for use on and in the water regardless whether the buoyancy is achieved by inflation or inherent buoyant material.
This document is applicable for Class B floating leisure articles as specified in ISO 25649-1:2024, Table 1.
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 in Class B (see Annex B):
—      floating rafts with interior body holding system (“swim seats”) mostly in circular or square shape, fantasy shape for playing purposes;
—      floating fantasy shaped structures with one or more openings to host a child’s body, with or without body holding system;
—      floating with slits or openings to put legs through any shape;
—      floating rings with interior seat segments inside the circular body opening.
NOTE 2        Typical places for application:
—      pools;
—      protected areas of lakes, ponds;
—      protected areas of sea shore (no offshore winds, no currents).

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