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Harmonized EN15649 Standards Series for Floating Leisure Articles
Harmonized EN 15649 standards series for floating leisure articles and inflatables.
EN 15649 Standards Series for Floating Leisure Articles
EN15649 specifies safety requirements and testing methods related to materials, safety, and performance for floating leisure articles for use on and in water. The scope of EN 15649 covers floating leisure articles for persons of a minimum age of 36 months & above, and used in deep water where the user is out of its standing depth.
Floating leisure articles are classified as class A, B, C, D and E devices in EN15649 as described in a table within the latest SafeGuards bulletin (http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/000006/sgs-safeguards-15013-european-standards-en15649-harmonized-under-directive-200195ec-a4-en-13.pdf).
EN 15649 Standards Series Requirements
In EN 15649 (parts 1-7), below requirements are concerned:
- Entrapment hazard for foot/leg, head/neck and torso
- Entanglement hazard
- Human subject testing, such as floating stability
- Design working pressure
- Load bearing
- Towing device
- Valves and valve adapters
- Edges, corners and points
- Shearing and crushing points
- Strength of the hull and test conditions
- Pressure test for inflatables (cyclic pressure test, overpressure test)
- Heat test
- Air tightness test for inflatables
- Buckles and other fixings
- Chemical requirement for material (such as resistance to mineral oil, resistance to chlorinated salt water)
- Physical requirement for material (resistance to cold/ heat, resistance to puncturing)
- Mechanical requirements (resistance to puncturing, adhesion of coating)
- Durability of warning and marking
- Consumer information
The EN15649 series consists of seven parts. For all floating leisure articles, the requirements of EN 15649-1 and EN15649-2 have to be met. The other parts of the standard – EN 15649-3/4/5/6/7 are only for applicable for specific product classes as described in a table within the latest SafeGuards bulletin (http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/000006/sgs-safeguards-15013-european-standards-en15649-harmonized-under-directive-200195ec-a4-en-13.pdf).
Reference:
(1) Commission implementing decision on European standards series EN 15649, Official Journal of the European Union (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:196:0022:0023:EN:PDF )
About SGS Services for Toys and Juvenile Products
SGS has dedicated experts and services to assist you in the development of toys, juvenile products and childcare articles. SGS offers physical/mechanical tests, chemical tests, packaging evaluation, inspections to ensure the compliance of your products with the EU Toy Safety Directive (http://www.sgs.com/en/Consumer-Goods-Retail/Toys-and-Juvenile-Products/Toys/EU-Toy-Directive.aspx) and in target markets.
Please do not hesitate to contact the SGS experts for further information.
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 75 000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1 500 offices and laboratories around the world.
Contact details:
SGS Consumer Testing Services
Julian Kwok
Senior Technical Manager
Shenzhen, China
t: +86 755 25328310
Email: cts.media@sgs.com
Website: http://www.sgs.com/en/Consumer-Goods-Retail/Toys-and-Juvenile-Products.aspx
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