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Emergency equipment

Break to obtain access

EES013 sign: Break to obtain access
green square
IMO code
EES013
ISO 7010 number
E008

Where you will meet it

On cabinets and cases with emergency equipment closed behind glass.

What it means in practice

In an emergency you may break the glass to reach the equipment (a key, an extinguisher, a button).

Legal basis

Annex to IMO resolution A.1116(30) (adopted 05.12.2017), table of emergency equipment location markings. Mandatory on ships built from 01.01.2019; older ships may carry signs per resolution A.760(18). Graphic pattern of the symbol: ISO 7010.

This is not a legal text: in any doubt the current wording of the resolution and regulations decides.

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Sign colours are normative. The file is public domain or CC0 (a Commons recreation of the symbol named by the IMO annex).

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