What is BS EN 1809 - Safety requirements for diving equipment about?
BS EN 1809 is a European standard that discusses diving equipment and buoyancy compensators with a focus on functional and safety requirements, test methods. BS EN 1809 specifies functional, safety requirements, and test methods applicable to inflatable type buoyancy compensating devices intended to provide divers with means for controlling buoyancy and if applicable, means for carrying the breathing equipment and/or carrying the weights.
Note: BS EN 1809 is not applicable to other kinds of personal equipment such as life preservers, personal flotation, or rescue devices including combined buoyancy and rescue devices.
Who is BS EN 1809 - Safety requirements for diving equipment for?
BS EN 1809 on safety requirements for diving equipment is useful for:
- Manufacturers of diving equipment
- Retailers of diving equipment
- Architects
- Contractors
- Installers of swimming pools equipment
Why should you use BS EN 1809 - Safety requirements for diving equipment?
Diving is a voluntary movement into the water with arms and head entering the water first or a voluntary movement into the water with feet entering the water first while performing acrobatics. There can be additional requirements for purposes such as competition swimming, and advice should be sought from the governing body of the sport in question
Swimming pools may sound like fun, but if constructed or installed improperly, may turn out to be a safety hazard. BS EN 1809 provides functional, safety requirements, and test methods for diving equipment. BS EN 1809 discusses mandatory features, optional features, long-term usability, resistance to hydrostatic pressure visual inspection, wearing, and environmental resistance tests, hydrostatic pressure test, buoyancy test, inflator tests, deflation device test, pressure relief test, drainage test, and test of the oral inflation device.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 1809:2014+A1:2016 supersedes EN 1809:1997, which is withdrawn. BS EN 1809:2014+A1:2016 includes some technical changes with respect to EN 1809:1997.
These include:
- Updating of definitions
- Updating of test methods
- Introduction of pass/fail criteria for practical performance test
- Update of marking and instructions for use
