BS EN ISO 25649-4:2024

Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water. Additional specific safety requirements and test methods for Class B devices | Status: Current

1 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).