Template Information
Uscg life raft inspection handbook
Category: maritime
Template Questions
- Name of Liferaft's Vessel
- Number of Persons
- Type of Liferaft
- Liferaft Manufacturer
- Date of Manufacture
- Serial Number
- Add media
- Inspection Type
- Use of life raft inspection book: This inspector book is intended to be used as a job aid by Coast Gu
- Annual Inspection
- Must be conducted in accordance with IMO Resolution A.689(17), paragraph 2/5.1.5
- Pressurized and checked for damage and leakageMaybe included as the Working pressure leakage test
- Inflated until firm and let stand for one hourMust still be firm after one hourSeams connecting floor
- Replace if passed expiration dateRepaired or replaced if damaged and unserviceable
- Replaced with a fresh battery if passed expiration dateMeasured voltage is less than rated voltage
- Inspected and tested as prescribed in the servicing manual unless battery is included aboveEach cell
- Tested and inspected in accordance with the manufacturer's instruction EEPROM must be tested using th
- Tested for proper operation
- Damaged faded or incorrect instruction or identification labels on life raft or containers must be re
- Each life raft examined to ensure that it is properly marked with retro reflective material Arrangeme
- Each inflation cylinder must be weighedIf weight loss exceeds 5% of the way of the charge, it must be
- Must renew: The poppet pin, if any Each plastic or elastomeric seal and other parts that deteriorate
- Tested in marked in accordance with 49 CFR 173.34
- Lunching load test conducted at every second servicingTest must be conducted in accordance with IMO R
- At every 5th in your servicing, each life raft must be removed from its container and inflated by its
- Life Raft (10 year or greater)
- If a gas inflated test is not conducted, a "Necessary Additional Pressure" (NAP) test must be conduct
- Plug or otherwise disable pressure-relief valveGradually raise the pressure to the lesser of 2 times
- Buoyancy tube supported a sufficient distance above the floor of the servicing facility, a person wei
- Additional Facility Requirements
- Servicing facility must permanently mark the life raft outside the canopy, or on a servicing record p
- Inspection sticker to be affixed to the life raft container, Must be of a type that will remain legib
- Name of the Manufacturer of the life raftYear and month of the expiration dateIdentification of the s
- Expiration date of the servicing sticker is 12 months after the date of the life raft repacked, excep
- Facility must remove and destroy markings of CG approval on each condemned life raft
- The servicing facility must issue a certificate the life raft owner's agent for each life raft it ser
- The servicing facility must keep a record of each life raft approved by the Coast Guard for at least
- Servicing facility must provide OCMI annual statistics showing nature and extent of damage and defect