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AS 12401:2025
[Current]Small craft - Deck safety harness and safety line - Safety requirements and test methods (ISO 12401:2009, MOD)
AS 12401:2025 adopts and modifies ISO 12401:2009, which specifies the requirements for performance, sizing, marking and test methods for deck safety harnesses and safety lines on recreational craft.
Published: 27/06/2025
Pages: 22
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Requirements for safety
4.1 General
4.2 Materials and construction
4.3 General performance
4.3.1 Donning
4.3.2 Attachment point
4.3.3 Comfortable wear
4.3.4 Detachability of safety lines
4.3.5 Hooks
4.3.6 Holding down device
4.3.7 Integrated combinations
4.4 Inspection requirements for deck safety harness sizes 1 and 2 and safety line
4.5 Static loading of deck safety harness size 3
5 Test methods
5.1 Magnetic properties testing
5.2 Dynamic testing
5.2.1 Principle
5.2.2 Apparatus
5.2.2.1 Equipment for dynamic testing of deck safety harnesses and safety lines
5.2.2.2 Torso dummy
5.2.2.3 Reference safety line for dynamic testing
5.2.3 Reference deck safety harness
5.2.3.1 General
5.2.3.2 Anchorage
5.2.4 Conditioning
5.2.5 Harness testing
5.2.5.1 Preparation
5.2.5.2 First drop, feet first
5.2.5.3 Second drop, head first
5.2.6 Safety line testing
5.2.7 Integrated deck safety harness and safety line testing
5.3 Static testing of deck safety harnesses of size 3 only
5.4 Accidental hook opening testing
5.5 User’s tests
5.5.1 Principle
5.5.2 Test subjects
5.5.3 Assessment panel
5.5.4 Procedure
5.5.4.1 Donning test
5.5.4.2 Comfortable wear testing
6 Marking
7 Information supplied by the manufacturer
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