Ingangsdatum: 04-11-1993
THE ASSEMBLY,
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,
1. ADOPTS the symbols for use in accordance with SOLAS
regulation III/9.2.3 set out in Annex 1 to the present resolution;
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).