Emergency equipment
Eyewash station
- IMO code
- EES003
- ISO 7010 number
- E011
Where you will meet it
At workplaces with chemicals: the battery room, the laundry, the chemical store, the workshop, the cargo laboratory on tankers.
What it means in practice
Here you can flush your eyes after a splash or a chemical burn. Start rinsing immediately: seconds count.
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.
Download
Sign colours are normative. The file is public domain or CC0 (a Commons recreation of the symbol named by the IMO annex).