5 Testing requirements
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5 Testing requirements

  5.1 After initial installation or modification, the system should be checked to verify proper operation including the following items:

  • .1 that all visual signal devices operate upon activation of the general emergency alarm system; and

  • .2 that all visual signal devices are synchronized as specified in 3.7.

  5.2 The periodic testing of visual signal devices as part of the general emergency alarm system should be included in the maintenance plan required by SOLAS regulation II-2/14.2.2.

Parent topic: Annex – Guidelines for a Visual Element to the General Emergency Alarm System of Passenger Ships
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