BS EN 14593-1:2005

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.