Personal flotation devicesCanada is considering the development of a new standard for infant/child life jackets. Eight currently available (approved and non-approved) infant/child life jackets were procured for evaluation. Fifty-six participants were chosen as a sample of convenience from the general ...
Devices to prevent drowning are called life jackets or flotation aids in Europe and personal flotation devices (PFDs) in the U.S.A. In Canada, they are all referred to as life jackets and for the rest of this paper they will be referred to as such. In 1991, Funkhouser and Fairlie (19...