BS EN 14593-1:2005
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Respiratory protective devices. Compressed air line breathing apparatus with demand valve Apparatus with a full mask. Requirements, testing, marking
Hardcopy , PDF
English
29-04-2005
22-06-2018
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions and pictograms
4 Description
5 Requirements
5.1 General
5.2 Ergonomics
5.3 Materials
5.4 Water immersion
5.5 Cleaning and disinfecting
5.6 Practical performance
5.7 Connections
5.8 Compressed air line breathing apparatus used with
self-contained breathing apparatus - switch over
device
5.9 Body harness or belt
5.10 Performance requirements after storage
5.11 Flammability
5.12 Resistance to pressure
5.13 Mobile high pressure air supply systems
5.14 Warning devices for mobile high pressure air supply
systems
5.15 Compressed air supply tube
5.16 Breathing hose
5.17 Lung governed demand valve
5.18 Adjustable parts
5.19 Full face masks
5.20 Inward leakage
5.21 Inhalation and exhalation valves
5.22 Breathing resistance
5.23 Carbon dioxide content of inhalation air
5.24 Leaktightness
6 Testing
6.1 General
6.2 Water immersion
6.3 Visual inspection
6.4 Practical performance
6.5 Strength of connections to facepiece, demand valve,
medium pressure connecting tube and breathing hose
6.6 Resistance to collapse of breathing hose
6.7 Strength of compressed air supply tube, body harness
and couplings
6.8 Storage conditioning
6.9 Flammability
6.10 Pressure relief valve
6.11 Resistance to kinking of compressed air supply tube
6.12 Resistance to collapse of compressed air supply tube
6.13 Heat resistance of compressed air supply tube
6.14 Inward leakage
6.15 Tests for lung-governed demand valve
6.16 Determination of carbon dioxide content of the
inhalation air
6.17 Testing of audible warning device
6.18 Switch over device
7 Marking
8 Information supplied by the manufacturer
Annex A (normative) Static and dynamic pressure for apparatus
with thread connector in accordance with
EN 148-3
Annex B (informative) Marking
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European
Standard and the Essential Requirements
of EU Directive 89/686/EEC (PPE)
Describes minimum requirements for compressed air line breathing apparatus with demand valve for use with a full face mask as a respiratory protective device.
| Committee |
PH/4
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| DevelopmentNote |
Together with BS EN 14593-2 and BS EN 14594 supersedes BS EN 139. Supersedes 02/565105 DC. (05/2005)
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
38
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| PublisherName |
British Standards Institution
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| Status |
Superseded
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| SupersededBy | |
| Supersedes |
| Standards | Relationship |
| NS EN 14593-1 : 1ED 2005 | Identical |
| NBN EN 14593-1 : 2005 | Identical |
| NF EN 14593-1 : 2005 | Identical |
| I.S. EN 14593-1:2005 | Identical |
| DIN EN 14593-1:2005-07 | Identical |
| EN 14593-1:2005 | Equivalent |
| UNE-EN 14593-1:2005 | Identical |
| EN 14593-1:2018 | Identical |
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