Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Description
5 Classification
6 Designation
7 Requirements
7.1 Materials
7.2 Cleaning and disinfecting
7.3 Resistance to temperature
7.4 Facepiece
7.5 Inward leakage
7.6 Flammability
7.7 Practical performance
7.8 Connectors
7.9 Breathing hose
7.10 Overflow valve
7.11 Body harness, belt and breathing bag
7.12 Compressed air supply tube
7.13 Continuous flow valve
7.14 Checking and warning facilities
7.15 Adjustable parts
7.16 Breathing resistance
7.17 Inhalation and exhalation valves
7.18 Carbon dioxide content of inhalation air
7.19 Leak tightness
8 Testing
8.1 General
8.2 Visual inspection
8.3 Resistance to temperature
8.4 Flammability
8.5 Practical performance
8.6 Resistance to collapse of brealthing hose
8.7 Strength of connections to facepiece and waist belt or
body harness
8.8 Overflow valve
8.9 Resistance to kinking of the compressed air supply tube
8.10 Resistance to collapse of compressed air supply tube
8.11 Strength of compressed air supply tube, couplings and
harness
8.12 Heat resistance of compressed air supply tube
8.13 Air supply flow rate
8.14 Checking and warning facilities
8.15 Breathing resistance
8.16 Carbon dioxide content of the inhalation air
8.17 Leak tightness
9 Marking
10 Information to be supplied by the manufacturer
Annex A (informative) Marking of components
Annex ZA (informative) Clauses of this European Standard addressing
essential requirements or other provisions of
EU Directives