救生艇安全修正案
2011.06.01
近年來很多船在举行救生艇操练时因 “on-load release-快速松解机件” 失效而发生多起意外导致多名海员喪命. 本是救命工具变为致命原因.
船东们和船级社因此多次请求 IMO 在 SOLAS 公约作出新的指导但迟迟不得要求.
但意外的事竞然发生, IMO 上月11日到20日在伦敦所举行之例会中竞快速通过一项新法例要求所有船上救生艇不合要求之 on-load release 机件必需于2014年后第一次旱塢维修时更新, 但最慢不能迟过 2019年7月1日.
图片 1 至 5清楚地示出因救生艇前面之 release hook 折断导致救生艇掉到水中.
Adoption of SOLAS amendments – lifeboat release mechanisms
The MSC adopted a new paragraph 5 of SOLAS regulation III/1 to require lifeboat on-load release mechanisms not complying with new International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code requirements to be replaced no later than the first scheduled dry-docking of the ship after 1 July 2014 but, in any case, not later than 1 July 2019.
The SOLAS amendment, which is expected to enter into force on 1 January 2013, is intended to establish new, stricter, safety standards for lifeboat release and retrieval systems, aimed at preventing accidents during lifeboat launching, and will require the assessment and possible replacement of a large number of lifeboat release hooks.
The Committee also adopted Guidelines for evaluation of and replacement of lifeboat release and retrieval systems and related amendments to the LSA Code and associated amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances (resolution MSC.81(70).
Member governments were encouraged to initiate, at the earliest opportunity, approval processes for new on-load release and retrieval systems that comply with the amendments to the LSA Code.
来源: IMO
