Mandatory signs
Wash your hands
- IMO code
- MSS011
- ISO 7010 number
- M011
Where you will meet it
In the galley, the mess room, the hospital, at the toilets.
What it means in practice
Wash your hands. In the closed community of a ship a stomach infection spreads like wildfire.
Legal basis
Annex to IMO resolution A.1116(30) (adopted 05.12.2017), table of mandatory signs. 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).