---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 149.327"
title: "33"
number: "149.327"
heading: "What are the approval requirements for work vests and anti-exposure (deck) suits?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/149.327"
---

# §149.327. What are the approval requirements for work vests and anti-exposure (deck) suits?


All work vests and anti-exposure (deck) suits on a manned deepwater port must be of a buoyant type approved under:

- (a) Approval series 160.053 as a work vest;
- (b) Approval series 160.053 or 160.153 as an anti-exposure suit; or
- (c) Approval series 160.077 as a commercial hybrid personal flotation device.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1504, 1509; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: USCG-1998-3884, 71 FR 57651, Sept. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.