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 and the prevention and control of marine pollution from
ships,
BEARING IN MIND the requirements of regulations II-2/15.2.4 (Fire control plans), II-2/13.3.2.5.1 (Marking of escape routes), II-2/13.7 (Additional requirements for ro-ro passenger
ships), III/9 (Operating instructions), III/11 (Survival craft muster and embarkation arrangements)
and III/20.10 (Marking of stowage locations) of the
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended,
RECALLING resolutions A.760(18) on Symbols related to life-saving appliances and
arrangements, as amended by resolution MSC.82(70), and A.952(23) on Graphical symbols for shipboard fire control plans,
RECOGNIZING the need for uniform international symbols to indicate the location of
emergency equipment as well as muster stations and that the Assembly had urged
Contracting Governments to ensure that the symbols annexed to the aforementioned
Assembly resolutions were used, where appropriate,
HAVING NOTED that, through the Shipboard escape route signs and emergency
equipment location markings (MSC.1/Circ.1553), Contracting Governments had been invited to bring
standard ISO 24409-2:2014, which generally conforms to the corresponding symbols set
out in the annex to resolution A.760(18) on Symbols related to life-saving appliances and
arrangements, as amended, and in the annex to resolution A.952(23) on Graphical symbols for fire control plans, to the
attention of ship designers, shipbuilders, shipowners, ship operators, ship masters,
shore-based firefighting personnel and other parties concerned, so that they might
use it, on a voluntary basis, for shipboard signage, in compliance with the relevant
requirements of SOLAS chapters II-2 and III, pending the adoption of the revised resolution,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations made by the Maritime Safety Committee, at its
ninety-eighth session,
1 ADOPTS the Escape route signs and equipment location markings, set out in
the annex to the present resolution;
2 URGES Contracting Governments to bring the aforementioned escape route signs and
equipment location markings to the attention of shipbuilders, shipowners, ship
operators, shipmasters, shore-based firefighting personnel and other parties
concerned with the safety of life at sea for their use within the framework of SOLAS
chapters II-2 and III;
3 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep this resolution under review and to
amend it as necessary;
4 INVITES Contracting Governments to note that these escape route signs and equipment
location markings should take effect on ships constructed on or after 1 January 2019
or ships which undergo repairs, alterations, modifications and outfitting within the
scope of SOLAS chapters II-2 and/or III, as applicable, on or after 1 January 2019, and that they should be
used, as appropriate, in combination with resolution A.952(23) for the preparation of the shipboard fire control plans
required by SOLAS regulation II-2/15.2.4.