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Division 6.5

United Kingdom

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The minimum requirement for every survival craft (lifeboat), life-raft, life-buoy and life-jacket which is provided are that they:

  • must be suitable and equipped to maintain life for a sufficient time,

  • must be in sufficient number of all the workers likely to be present,

  • must be of a type suitable for the workplace,

  • must be properly constructed of suitable materials having regard to their life-saving function and the circumstances in which they may be used and kept ready for use, and

  • must be of such colour as will make them conspicuous when in use, and equipped with devices such that the user can use them to attract the attention of rescuers.