This draft Standard was produced by the National Boating Standards Panel in collaboration with its group of subject matter experts that comprised the K-12 Standard Workgroup. This Standard was produced under funding from a U.S. Coast Guard National Nonprofit grant.

The goal of this Standard is to educate and empower the K-12 audience to choose, use, and wear a PFD correctly. The U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan includes such a priority through one of its objectives: "Develop and implement national minimum education standards for teaching life jacket fit, type, and style; when to wear; and demonstrations to include practice fitting and use for both boating and non-boating water recreation."

This Standard is intended to be used for instruction in classrooms, camps, or any other setting, including in-water. It is not meant to replace other water safety courses or swimming lessons; this Standard will complement other instructional classes and further increase water confidence and competence.

This 90-day public review period will close December 5, 2024.

Please contact StandardsPanel@nasbla.org if you have questions or would like additional information.

This draft standard was originally produced by the Boating Incident Investigation Standard Workgroup under funding from a U.S. Coast Guard National Nonprofit grant. This is the fourth public review period under the process to be recognized as an American National Standard.

All changes from previous review periods have been considered and adjudicated. This draft contains the substantive changes that the were made by the Panel based on comments from the previous calls. An announcement for this comment period will also appear in ANSI Standards Action.

This 90-day public review period will close September 26, 2024.

Investigative Training for Boating Incidents standard is for use in curriculum development and training of recreational boating incident investigators in the U.S. States, Territories, and District of Columbia. These Standards provide commonality for recreational boat incident investigations, general vessel terminology, navigation rules and regulations, environmental distractions, witness interviews, collision dynamics, evidence collection and preservation, diagramming, and report writing, including adherence to definitions and detail in the incident narrative with particular focus on human factor causal elements. Standards are developed with intention to be recognized as the industry standard.

Contact Matt Majors (matt.majors@nasbla.org) or standardspanel@nasbla.org if you have questions or would like additional

This draft standard was originally produced by the Boating Incident Investigation Standard Workgroup under funding from a U.S. Coast Guard National Nonprofit grant. This is the third public review period under the process to be recognized as an American National Standard.

Comments will only be considered as they pertain to the items that have been substantively changed based on the comments submitted in the previous call. These changes are reflected in the standard document labeled as 'TRACKED.'

This 45-day public review period will close February 23, 2024.

Investigative Training for Boating Incidents standard is for use in curriculum development and training of recreational boating incident investigators in the U.S. States, Territories, and District of Columbia. These Standards provide commonality for recreational boat incident investigations, general vessel terminology, navigation rules and regulations, environmental distractions, witness interviews, collision dynamics, evidence collection and preservation, diagramming, and report writing, including adherence to definitions and detail in the incident narrative with particular focus on human factor causal elements. Standards are developed with intention to be recognized as the industry standard.

Contact Matt Majors (matt.majors@nasbla.org) or standardspanel@nasbla.org if you have questions or would like additional information.

This draft standard was originally produced by the Boating Incident Investigation Standard Workgroup under funding from a U.S. Coast Guard National Nonprofit grant. This is the second public review period under the process to be recognized as an American National Standard.

Comments will only be considered as they pertain to the items that have been substantively changed based on the comments submitted in the previous call. These changes are reflected in the standard document labeled as 'TrackedChanges.'

This 45-day public review period will close October 2, 2023.

Investigative Training for Boating Incidents standard is for use in curriculum development and training of recreational boating incident investigators in the U.S. States, Territories, and District of Columbia. These Standards provide commonality for recreational boat incident investigations, general vessel terminology, navigation rules and regulations, environmental distractions, witness interviews, collision dynamics, evidence collection and preservation, diagramming, and report writing, including adherence to definitions and detail in the incident narrative with particular focus on human factor causal elements. Standards are developed with intention to be recognized as the industry standard.

Contact Matt Majors (matt.majors@nasbla.org) standardspanel@nasbla.org if you have questions or would like additional information.