ISO 15085:2024

Description

This document specifies the design as well as the construction and strength requirements for safety devices and arrangements intended to minimize the risk of persons falling overboard, and requirements to facilitate reboarding from the water, unaided, on small craft.

This document is applicable to the risk of falling overboard and does not apply to falling within the limits of the deck zone.

This document includes the use of toe straps for hiking out on small sailing boats, but it does not apply to the use of trapezes or similar devices that are designed to allow crew to operate sailing boats with their bodies entirely outside the periphery of the craft.

This document does not apply to the following small craft types:

–¬†¬†¬†¬† canoes, kayaks;

–¬†¬†¬†¬† personal watercraft including powered surfboards.