BS EN 15154-3:2009

This standard BS EN 15154-3:2009 Emergency safety showers is classified in these ICS categories:

• 71.040.10 Chemical laboratories. Laboratory equipment
• 13.100 Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene

This European Standard is a product specification, giving minimum performance requirements for non plumbed-in emergency safety body showers.

It is applicable to body showers filled with a washing fluid by the manufacturer and to empty devices to be filled prior to putting into service. Both variations are for first aid use when the body or parts of the body have been exposed to harmful substances or heat.

Requirements are also given concerning labelling, marking and information to be supplied by the manufacturer.

Throughout this standard, the term “non plumbed-in emergency safety body shower” is referred to as “body shower”.