4.1 Passenger and Crew Accommodation
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4.1 Passenger and Crew Accommodation

  4.1.1 Passenger and crew accommodation should be designed and arranged so as to protect the occupants from unfavourable environmental conditions and to minimize the risk of injury to occupants during normal and emergency conditions.

  4.1.2

  • (a) Spaces accessible to passengers should not contain controls, electrical equipment, high temperature parts and pipelines, rotating assemblies or other items from which injury to passengers could result, unless such items are adequately shielded, isolated, or otherwise protected.

  • (b) Passenger accommodation should not contain operating controls unless the operating controls are so protected and located that their operation by a crew member is unlikely to be impeded by passengers during normal and emergency conditions of operation.

  • (c) Adequate means to notify passengers to be seated should be provided.

  4.1.3 Crew accommodation should be to the satisfaction of the Administration having regard to the craft's intended service.

  4.1.4 Windows in passenger and crew accommodation should be made of material which will not break into dangerous fragments if fractured.

Parent topic: Chapter 4 - Accommodation and Escape Measures
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