RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
BEARING IN MIND that Regulation
III/9.2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life
at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended, prescribes that posters or signs
shall be provided on, or in the vicinity of, survival craft and their
launching controls and shall use symbols in accordance with the recommendations
of the Organization,
RECOGNIZING the urgent need for establishing international
symbols for these purposes on board ships,
RECOGNIZING FURTHER the need for other uniform symbols to
indicate the location of emergency equipment as well as muster and
embarkation stations,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its sixty-second session,
2. ADOPTS ALSO the recommended symbols indicating
the location of emergency equipment and muster and embarkation stations
set out in annex 2 to the present
resolution;
3. URGES Governments to ensure that, where appropriate,
at every point inside a passenger ship from where passages run in
different directions, the safest way to a muster station is indicated
by means of a symbol and for marking escape routes, etc., symbols
be used that are in compliance with those set out in annex 2 to the present resolution;
4. ALSO URGES Governments to ensure that, where
appropriate, the route from the muster station to the embarkation
station is indicated by means of a symbol and for marking routes,
etc., symbols be used that are in compliance with those set out in annex 2 to the present resolution;
5. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep
this resolution under review and amend it as necessary;
6. REVOKES Resolution A.603(15).